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Title: Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.
After defeating Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight championship of the world, Cassius Clay announced that he had joined the Nation of Islam and had changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Here, on stage at the Olympic Auditorium, Ali sits next to Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Dated August 9, 1964.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049061
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4753; HE-002-539 4x5
CARL0000052854
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17285
Subject: Ali, Muhammad,--1942-2016
Elijah Muhammad,--1897-1975
Grand Olympic Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Boxers (Sports)--United States
Black Muslims
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Auditoriums--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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