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Ezra, Michael. "Muhammad Ali's Main Bout: Black Nationalism and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1967," University of Kansas, December 2001.
My dissertation positions Muhammad Ali as a race man whose boxing career and draft resistance corresponded politically and economically with the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and borrowed from the two-century old intellectual tradition of black nationalism. By framing Ali as a civil rights leader alongside figureheads Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, John Lewis, and Malcolm X, I define the scope of the contemporary black freedom struggle beyond politics. Through his stalwart stance against the Vietnam War and by forming the Nation of Islam-led Main Bout, Inc. to control the multi-million dollar ancillary promotional rights to his fights, Ali demonstrated unprecedented professional and personal autonomy for a black boxer. Additionally, I parallel the white resistance encountered by Ali and his civil rights contemporaries. Reflecting my belief that historical narratives must inform out comprehension of the present and the future, I also analyze how our consumption of the Ali legend today, particularly representations of his draft resistance, conviction on draft evasion charges, and three-and-a-half year suspension from professional boxing, reflects American racial concerns.
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