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Lot 164
ALI, MUHAMMAD Signature on playbill for "Cassius Clay is Buck White".
[New York: 1969]. Printed playbill for the performances at the George Abbott Theatre, signed in blue ink at the head "Muhammad Ali". 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm). Folds with a short split at ends, handling creases.
A rare Ali autograph on the playbill of the Civil Rights movement musical in which he starred on Broadway in 1969. This came at a pivotal time in Ali's life - stripped of his boxing license and convicted of draft evasion during the Vietnam War (overturned by the Supreme Court in 1971), Ali starred in this musical under his birth name of Cassius Clay, playing the role of a militant Black lecturer addressing a political group. The show closed after seven performances but the original cast performance of "We Came in Chains" on The Ed Sullivan Show can be found online.
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