“Why’s everybody making progress, and yet we lag so far behind…”

August 14, 1967. The Grand Marshal of the Watts Summer Festival Parade in California happened to be none other than Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight champion of the world who less than four months earlier had been banished in the boxing world for standing by his beliefs on the war in Vietnam. Want to talk about action? Conviction? What it takes to become the People’s Champion?

It was all to be found along those 30 blocks of Watts that day, where riots had taken place two years earlier. Why was Ali chosen?

“Because he epitomizes a new era on the history of the black man in America,” chairman Billy Joe Tidwell said at the time. Nobody could have known just how true those words were at the time. Heather black sweatshirt commemorating Ali and the 1967 Watts Summer Festival Parade!

Officially licensed by Muhammad Ali.
Photo credit UCLA Library Special Collection.

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• Printed in the USA
• Triblend fleece
• Color of actual product may vary from photo
• Wash with cold water
• Hang to dry
  

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