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Fri, 04.28.1967

Muhammad Ali Refuses His Vietnam Draft Notice

Muhammad Ali, 1967

On this date in 1967, African American boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the U.S. Army and was eventually stripped of his heavyweight boxing title.

A Muslim Ali cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo Vietnam military service. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky, the future three-time world champ converted to Islam in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali.  

New Poem Each Day

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We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with... WE WEAR THE MASK by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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