He proved more accessible than Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, who gave Ali his name as part of a successful effort to pry the young champion from the grips of his most important mentor, Malcolm X. He possessed more charisma than his friend Stokely Carmichael, who tutored the heavyweight champion on the nuances of his own groundbreaking anti-war activism. He became more “black” than James Brown, the godfather of soul, who shouted to the world that he was “proud” to be black. ![]() Action Images / MSI/Fileīy the late 1960s, Ali’s unforgiveable blackness helped him emerge as a transcendent and global figure of black liberation. Muhammad Ali, holding a book called 'Towards Understanding Islam' written by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, speaks with Muslims in London, May 1966.
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