March 29 2013

Fly Flicks: Fly Athletes From The 1960s

Front row: Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Kareem Abdul Jabar.
Back row: Carl Stokes, Walter Beach, Bobby Mitchell, Sid Williams, Curtis McClinton, Willie Davis, Jim Shorter, and John Wooten.

This photograph was taken at a press conference given on June 4, 1967. The top African American athletes of that time, gathered together as a show of unity for Muhammad Ali, as he publicly proclaimed his reasons for rejecting the Vietnam War draft.

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Posted March 29, 2013 by Elsie Law in category "History", "The Classics

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