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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.  

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The last quarter moon of the dying year, Pendant behind a naked cottonwood tree On a frosty, dawning morning With the back of her silver head Turned to the waking sun. Quiet... THE LAST QUARTER MOON OF THE DYING YEAR by Jonathan Henderson Brooks.
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