Boxing champion Muhammad Ali on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, shortly after being stripped of the heavyweight title for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War. With an introduction by archivist Alex Cherian. Clip is copyright Young Broadcasting of San Francisco, Inc. Special thanks to Pat Patton and KRON-TV for helping to make this material more publicly accessible. For more info, visit the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive at:
https://diva.sfsu.edu/colle... Background: Muhammad Ali, born under the name Cassius Clay in 1942, is three-time world heavyweight boxing champion, having fought in many of the iconic bouts in boxing history - against Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, and rivals Joe Frazier and George Foreman, among others. A convert to Islam in 1964, Ali refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam. Found guilty of draft evasion in 1967, the year of this clip, Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title and had his boxing license suspended. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 1971; Ali would go on fight and win the title again and become one of the best-known athletes and activists of all time. See also:
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