... Night in Miami without watching Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali (2021). This film provides historical context as to ... where Clay moves from Cassius Clay to Cassius X then to Muhammad Ali, from friend of Malcolm X to foe, from one who spars in the ...
Tópico(s): American History and Culture
2022 - University of Illinois Press | Journal of Sport History
... twenty-three-year old fighter Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston and took the world heavyweight boxing title, the ... of Islam, bestowed on Clay his Muslim name, Muhammad Ali. Ali’s victory and subsequent announcement were widely ... In 1965, a little over a year after Muhammad Ali’s highly public conversion, the poet and playwright ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
1999 - Johns Hopkins University Press | American Quarterly