Monument to Joe Louis

The Monument to Joe Louis, referred to likewise as The Fist, is a commemoration to the boxer at Detroit's Hart Plaza.Dedicated on October 16, 1986, the model, appointed by Sports Illustrated magazine from the Mexican-American stone worker Robert Graham, is a 24-foot-long arm with a fisted hand suspended by a 24-foot-high pyramidal framework.It speaks to the energy of his punch both inside and outside the ring. As a result of Louis' endeavors to battle Jim Crow laws, the clench hand was emblematically pointed toward racial injustice.Graham alluded to the figure as a "battering ram".It is asserted to be a chronicled allegory, even down to its arrangement .The model was vandalized by two white men in 2004, who shrouded it in white paint and left a sign which read, "Affability of Fighting Whities".