国立アメリカ歴史博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (国立アメリカ歴史博物館Instagram)「“You will please step forward and be inducted into the United States Army.” Muhammad Ali did not move. On June 20, 1967, Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing induction to the U.S. armed forces. Ali declared himself a conscientious objector to the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King praised Ali, stating “I would not dare stand in the way of one who has taken a position because of moral conscience.” However the draft board had rejected Ali’s application for conscientious objector classification. When Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces, he was stripped of his boxing license and titles, sentenced to five years in prison, and fined $10,000. Ali had used his public platform to critique the war in Vietnam and racism at home, telling reporters earlier that year, “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam after so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?” His actions received national attention. Civil Rights leaders Julian Bond recalled, “You could hear people talking about it on street corners. It was on everyone’s lips. People who had never thought about the war before began to think it through because of Ali. The ripples were enormous.” Ali paid bond and remained free while he appealed, eventually taking it to the Supreme Court who reversed the conviction. Federal courts also restored Ali’s boxing license and he returned to the ring. 📷: Diana Walker, April 1976 #OTD #TDIH #AmericanHistory #CivilRightsHistory #MilitaryHistory #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #SportsHistory #EntertainmentHistory #BoxingHistory #LegalHistory #MuhammadAli #StingLikeAButterflyFloatLikeABee」6月21日 0時10分