(SPORTS BOXING) Malcolm X with the new heavyweight champion

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(SPORTS--BOXING.) Malcolm X with the new heavyweight champion, soon to be known as Muhammad Ali. Photograph, 9 x 7 inches, with inked Pix magazine stamps on verso, and also typed caption "Cassius Clay is shown with Black Muslim leader Malcolm X on a New York City street"; minor wear. New York, 1 March 1964

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This photograph was taken on 1 March 1964, during a momentous period in both men's lives. Five days earlier, Cassius Clay had defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship, on 25 February 1964. Five days after this photograph, on 6 March, Elijah Muhammad announced that the boxer was formally joining the Nation of Islam and had taken the name Muhammad Ali. Two days after that, on 8 March. Malcolm X announced his break from the Nation of Islam, leading to a break in his relationship with Ali. He was killed less than a year later.