Existing comment:
Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves
about 1974
worn in the 1974 fight in Zaire against George Foreman
Muhammad Ali's religious conversion to the Nation of Islam made him a symbol of the black power movement that grew out of the quest for civil rights in the 1960s. Stripped of his boxing license and heavyweight title in 1967 for refusing on religious grounds to be drafted into the U.S. Army, he was eventually reinstated and went on to fight many historic matches. |