![]() ![]() For example, if you are black and came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, Ali said and did what many of us could only dream about. Louis, amplifies, Ali means a lot to many different people for many different reasons. Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts and Sciences and director of the African and Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. ![]() It would be difficult for me, and others of my generation and race, I suspect, not to like a collection of the best writings on Muhammad Ali. “Ali, as a result of his touching, or poignant, or pathetic, or tragic (take your pick) appearance at the torch-lighting ceremony at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta has become, for new generations that did not grow up with him and for the older generations that did, the Great American Martyr,” writes Gerald Early, in his editor’s introduction to The Muhammad Ali Reader. After reading the articles that follow one can more knowledgeably decide what the real impact of that most memorable of television moments actually was. ![]()
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