Muhammad Ali’s | Draft Evasion Reversed
Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali had appealed his 1967 conviction of draft evasion with the United States Supreme Court in Clay v. United States. Ali had applied for a conscientious objector classification to not enter the military; this application was denied. On June 28, 1971 the Supreme Court reversed the earlier conviction in favor of Muhammad Ali.
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