https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf Made with mirth en-us 2017-05-31 14:59:13 UTC 2024-10-28 05:14:28 UTC hello@padlet.com ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/174639261 ¨His refusal to be drafted to fight in the war transcended the boxing ring, which he had dominated, at great personal cost.¨ 
- The Atlantic



]]> 2017-05-31 15:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/174639261 ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/174829353 Muhhammed Ali was stripped of his tiltle when he was speaking against it and and avoding the Vietnam war draft. ]]> 2017-06-01 14:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/174829353 ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/174830810 At the time of the Vietnam war racial inequality was a huge problem. By being a well known African American athlete played his part for fighting for racial inequality.]]> 2017-06-01 15:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/174830810 ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/174832610 2017-06-01 15:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/174832610 ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175551160 On April 28, 1967, the United States was at war with Vietnam. Muhammed Ali refused to be drafted into the armed forces, saying “I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” June 20, 1967, Muhammed Ali was convicted of draft evasion. He was sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years.]]> 2017-06-07 12:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175551160 ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175552547 2017-06-07 12:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175552547 ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175553231 "March 29, 1967. Muhammad Ali and Dr. Martin Luther King speak with reporters in Louisville, Ky. King says the sooner this country does away with the draft, the better off we’ll be. Ali was here for his court hearing to prevent his Army induction on April 28 in Houston. "]]> 2017-06-07 12:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175553231 ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175553878 Ali saw the war in Vietnam as an exercise in genocide. He also used his platform as boxing champion to connect with the war at home, saying, “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?” Saying this got him charged and stripped of his boxing career for 3 years.]]> 2017-06-07 12:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175553878 ha10319 https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175555010 2017-06-07 13:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ha10319/j30gnsx0nttf/wish/175555010