Muhammad Ali Convicted of Draft Evasion: The Champ Refuses to Fight in Vietnam
Houston courts stripped Muhammad Ali of his heavyweight title and sentenced him to prison for refusing the draft, a ruling that instantly erased his athletic dominance during his prime. The Supreme Court later overturned the conviction, but the three-year ban from boxing had already cost him his peak years and reshaped the cultural conversation around race and resistance in America.
June 20, 1967
59 years ago
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