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"I Shook Up The World"
"I Shook Up The World"
1979
26.00 in HIGH x 20.00 in WIDE
(66.04 cm HIGH x 50.80 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.5846

Bottom right corner reads, "A Tribute to the Retirement of Muhammad Ali/ By Abdul Rahim/ Copyright: Melvin Black Human Rights Committee 1979." Next to this text is a union stamp for Inkworks.





Poster has a white background with black text. In the center is an image of Muhammad Ali in boxing gear. At the top, poster reads, "I Shook Up The World." To the left of the image is a calendar for 1981 and 1982. To the right of the imageis a poem entitled, "Float like a butterfly sting like a bee." First stanza reads, "The Greatest/ the Greatest/ Muhammad Ali." The last stanza reads, "No he ain't/ Yes he is/ No he caint/ Yes he can/ No he didn't/ yes he did/ No he wont/ Yes he will."

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