Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Insisting that he is not primarily a prizefighter called Cassius Clay but a minister of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the Wilderness of North America (Black Muslims) named Muhammad Ali, the world's heavyweight champion last week climaxed his 14-round title bout with selective service by refusing to be inducted into the Army. Reclassified I A after the Army rejiggered its mental tests to a new low level last year, Clay has fought ever since to win draft exemption. After losing three separate petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court and endless other legal maneuverings, Clay...
...Hamilton, 27, was reclassified 1-A and said, "I will go whenever and wherever my country sends me"; Stoke I y Carmichael, 25, head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was reclassified 4-F, saving him the trouble of keeping his promise not to serve if called; Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali-Cassius Clay, 25, his appeals exhausted, was ordered to report for induction on April 11, and said he'd rather die first...
...gonna whup him. I'm gonna give him a humiliation. I'll keep hittin' him, and I'll keep talkin'." So said Cassius Clay before meeting Ernie Terrell for the heavyweight championship. Why so angry? Well, Cassius calls himself Muhammad Ali these days because he's a Black Muslim, and Terrell did not appreciate the significance of that fact since he kept calling Cassius, Clay...
They're still giving Cassius Muhammad Ali Clay a raw deal. Now that he's proven his boxing ability can embarrass anyone in the ring today, the press has turned to attacking Ali's "inhumanity." We saw the closed-circuit version at the Boston Garden, and it seemed to us that the champ was in a class far above the Chicago monkey by any and every standard...
...call me Clay?" he screamed. "You know my right name is Muhammad Ali. It takes an Uncle Tom Negro to call me by my slave name...