URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6064
Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement
Item Title Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Ali, Muhammad (1942-)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created December 12, 1968
Description When Mr. Clay joined the Black Muslims, his draft board reversed its earlier determination (made in order to keep him out of the Armed Forces so that he could continue to box) that he was not sufficiently intelligent to serve. When he was reclassified, he pleaded conscientious objection, was refused, and was about to begin a term in jail. CC: "I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it--when I see the white boys, who really are the number-one citizens, the future rulers, when I see them, by the hundreds, leaving the country, and I see the white preachers breaking into draft-board houses in Wisconsin and Baltimore, tearing the files out of the walls and making a bonfire out of 45,000 draft cards, pouring blood on them, and I see them go to court and the juries say two years, and I get five years for what's legal?"
Subject(s) United States Ali, Muhammad, 1942- Black power Armed Forces African Americans
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded New York City, New York, United States
Dimensions Duration: 50 minutes
Format Moving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color color
Color color
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program 130
Record Number 80040.130
Notes Video available through Amazon.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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