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Article: Muhammad Ali: The People's Champ.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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There have been more beloved and famous American athletes - even black heavyweight champions - than Muhammad Ali. But no American athlete has ever rivalled him as a controversial and heroic figure and none compelled as much attention for what he or she did outside of sport. It is Ali the icon of his race and time, of the simultaneous struggles over civil rights and the Vietnam War, between the generations and for America's soul, that is the subject of Muhammad Ali: The People's Champ. Jeffrey T. Sammons captures the theme of this original anthology on Ali in the introduction to his own contribution: "This essay does not measure Muhammad Ali by standards of moral or ...
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