Get Off My Wings! » Curtis McClinton http://getoffmywings.com LEGAL EAGLES...FLY OR DIE! Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:21:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Fly Flicks: Fly Athletes From The 1960s http://getoffmywings.com/2013/03/29/fly-flicks-fly-athletes-from-the-1960s/ http://getoffmywings.com/2013/03/29/fly-flicks-fly-athletes-from-the-1960s/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:16:21 +0000 http://getoffmywings.com/?p=1476 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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