Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times.

The Nation | June 17, 1991| | Copyright

With the perspective of more than twenty years, it may be that the true Zeitgeist of the rebellious, liberationist 1960s was embodied not by J.F.K., Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Tom Hayden or Stokely Carmichael but rather by a prizefighter who came to us as Cassius Clay and is now known to the world as Muhammad Ali.

Ali was champion, poet, internationalist, Vietnam draft resister, comic, rebel, free spirit, Muslim, exile, hero, victim. And he was the purest symbol of black power in the decade of black assertion, pride and consciousness. He had more styles, and more ...

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