... as an AUppity Negro@. After winning his first gold medal at the Olympics in Rome in 1960 when he was 18, he wrote in his autobiography that he threw the medal into the Ohio river because he was not allowed into a restaurant because of his skin color (Reemtsma, 25). Whether ... them to realize yet again that their favorite boxer was black. Ali was not only black, but a member of the Nation of Islam, the same sect as Malcolm X. Malcolm X was often looked upon by whites with disgust, sometimes even as a partially insane, violent, anti-white, black man. Muhammad Ali was many people=s favorit...

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