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Our fight is here! [Muhammad Ali]
Our fight is here! [Muhammad Ali]
c. 1966
17.00 in HIGH x 11.00 in WIDE
(43.18 cm HIGH x 27.94 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.3075






Poster has a black and white photograph in the middle of Muhammad Ali [the former Cassius Clay] speaking in front of multiple microphones. He is raising one hand with white papers in it. Poster reads, "Our fight is here!"Heavyweight boxing champion was vocal in his opposition to the Vietnam War, and famously stated, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong... No Viet Cong ever called me nigger." He was found guilty of draft evasion and was stripped of his title. [LMC]
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