Hey there! We have spent the last few hours exploring downtown Detroit! It was amazing. One of the most exciting things we saw was "The Fist". Picture coming soon! Here's some info about it:
The Monument to Joe Louis, known also as "The Fist",[1] is a memorial to the boxer at Detroit's Hart Plaza.
Dedicated on October 16, 1986, the sculpture, commissioned by Sports Illustrated magazine[2] from the Mexican-American sculptor Robert Graham, is a 24-foot-long (7.3 m) arm with a fisted hand suspended by a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) pyramidal framework.
It represents the power of his punch both inside and outside the ring. Because of his efforts to fight Jim Crow laws, the fist was symbolically aimed toward racial injustice.[3] Graham referred to the sculpture as a "battering ram".[4]
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