Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of his African tour, Nakasa says, much of the religious content had been dropped from Malcolm's arguments. (He had already been expelled from the Black Muslim Movement by Elijah Muhammad.) "Most of his speeches were political and social, but he still had a religious position, one which I couldn't get sorted out in my mind...
Next he was the sneering champion in Miami last February hooting: "Hypocrites! Whaddya say now, huh? Who's the greatest now?" And then he was the mysterious Black Muslim, Muhammad Ali, visiting the United Nations, stumping Africa, huddling with Nkrumah in Ghana...
...zipped to Manhattan to bedizen his ample middle with a $500 gold-plated championship belt from Ring Magazine. Verbally, he still stings like a bee. Gazing at the solid silver waistband Charley Mitchell won for going a bare-knuckle 39 rounds against John L. Sullivan in 1888, Muhammad AH bumbled: "They got cheap with the belts. They used to make them better." Maybe they did the fighters...
Married. Cassius Clay, 22, otherwise known as Muhammad Ali, the Black Muslim's most prominent disciple, in real life the strongest, quickest, most b-e-e-e-o-o-otiful, and certainly the most hilarious heavyweight champion boxing has ever known; and Sonji Roy, 22, Chicago model; in Gary...
...Black Nationalists, too, are split every which way. Spiritual heirs of that flamboyant fake Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican Negro who paraded through Harlem under a banner with a black star in the 1920s calling for a return to Africa, scores of outfits exist. There are Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and Malcolm X's offshoot Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox Mission and the House of Common Sense and Home of Proper Propaganda, which displays a sign advertising the book The God Damn White Man. All told, they probably have no more than...