Themes: Cedar-Central · Future Outlook League · African Americans and World War II · Heroes and “Race Men” · Jesse Owens Olympic Champion · Joe Louis the “Brown Bomber”· From the Boxing Ring to the Political Arena
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< “Carl Boxing” Louis Stokes Collection, WRHS.

Upon returning from the United States Army in 1946; Carl finished his high school diploma at East Tech and then went to a number of colleges. He first went to West Virginia State University where he was on the boxing team and won his conference middle-weight title.