Muhammad Ali and the Draft
The Greatest: My Own Story
Autobiography
By: Muhammad Ali, with Richard Durham
Date: 1975
Source: Ali, Muhammad, with Richard Durham. The Greatest: My Own Story. New York: Random House, 1975, 156, 165, 167–169, 172–174.
About the Author: Muhammad Ali (1942–) was born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky. Winning the Olympic Gold Medal in boxing as a light heavyweight in 1960, Clay turned professional and captured the heavyweight title in 1964. Shortly thereafter, he announced his conversion to Islam and took the name Muhammad Ali. In 1967, after being stripped of his title, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, a decision reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971. Ali regained the heavyweight title in 1974, then again in 1978, before retiring in 1981. Since retirement, Ali has battled a form of Parkinson's disease but keeps a busy schedule of personal...
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