The Economic Civil Rights Movement by Ezra Michael;

Author:Ezra, Michael;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Notes

1.Ali quoted in H.J. McFall, “Cassius Clay Tells Plans to Form a Negro Company,” Louisville Defender, January 13, 1966.

2.Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times (New York: Touch-stone, 1991), 30; Claude Lewis, Cassius Clay (New York: MacFadden-Bar-tell Books, 1965), 39; Michael Ezra, Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009), 67–89.

3.Eddie Muller, “Fight Talk Today is $,” San Francisco Examiner, November 19, 1965; Al Buck, “Cassius Clay: The ‘Champion,’” New York Post, November 24, 1966; “The Fight of TV,” Chicago Sun-Times, November 24, 1965; AP report, “Fight Facts and Figures,” Louisville Courier-Journal, November 22, 1965; Paul Zimmerman, “Clay, Patterson to Offer Defense,” Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1965; AP report, “Facts on Title Fight,” New York Times, May 26, 1965; AP report, “Fight Facts, Figures,” San Francisco Examiner, February 25, 1964; Robert Lipsyte, “Each Slice of Fight Pie is Rich, But Promoter’s Going Hungry,” New York Times, February 24, 1964; Leonard Koppett, “All the World’s a Stage, via TV, for Title Fight,” New York Times, February 23, 1964.

4.Although Main Bout had only five members the organization was split into six voting shares in order to give the Nation of Islam 50 percent control. Jimmy Cannon, “Theater TV, the Muslims … and Jim Brown,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, January 10, 1966; Hauser, Muhammad Ali, 151–52; Robert Lipsyte, “Clay’s Main Bout, Inc., Seen Final Step in a Project to Bolster Negro Business,” New York Times, January 9, 1966; George Vass, “TV Firm Dictated Date of Title Bout,” Chicago Daily News, January 28, 1966.

5.Brown quoted in Vass, “TV Firm Dictated Date”; Lipsyte, “Clay’s Main Bout”; UPI report, “Cleveland Grid Star Brown Retires,” Montreal Star, July 14, 1966; AP report, “Brown to Help Negro Economy,” Baltimore Sun, July 15, 1966; Earl Ruby, “Has Brown Left Door Ajar? No ex-athletes in his Plan,” Louisville Courier-Journal, July 22, 1966; Milton Gross, “Curiouser and Curiouser,” New York Post, February 3, 1967.

6.Gene Ward, “Heavy Title, TV and All, Taken Over By Muslims,” Chicago’s American, February 13, 1966; Jimmy Cannon, “Malice Disguised as Banter in Clay’s Evil Strain of Wit,” Miami Herald, February 19, 1966; Cannon, “Theater-TV, the Muslims”; Doug Gilbert, “Clay-Terrell Package Wrapped in Muslims?,” Chicago’s American, February 5, 1966; Red Smith, “N.Y. Merits Clay-Terrell, It’s Claimed,” Chicago Sun-Times, February 7, 1966; Editorial page, “Throw the Bums Out,” Chicago Daily News, February 5, 1966; Editorial page, “Sucker Bait,” Chicago Tribune, February 14, 1966. For black press coverage of Main Bout, which was mixed but significantly more supportive than white press coverage, see “Clay Opens New ‘Kettle of Fish,’” New York Amsterdam News, January 25, 1966; Cal Jacox, “From the Sidelines,” Cleveland Call and Post, January 22, 1966; Ric Roberts, “Change of Pace,” Pittsburgh Courier, February 19, 1966; “‘Mob’ Ruled Boxers Retire Flat Broke,” Pittsburgh Courier, February 12, 1966.

7.Hauser, Muhammad Ali, 142; UPI report, “Clay, Namath Targets in Draft Legislation,” Louisville Courier-Journal, February 10, 1966; Chip Magnus, “Congressmen Seek Khaki for Clay, Namath,” Chicago Sun-Times, February 10, 1966; UPI report, “Draft Heat On, but Lip Still Zipped,” Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1966.

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