Why Muhammad Ali formed a close relationship with Malcolm X, and then turned his back on him

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Why Muhammad Ali formed a close relationship with Malcolm X, and then turned his back on him

On the day newly crowned 22-year-old heavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali announced that he had rejected Cassius Clay as his “slave name”, Malcolm X, who had recruited him into the Nation of Islam, was beside him. The two civil rights era icons would become close friends but fell out after three years. Ali...

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1969

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