Muhammad Ali: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times (1991); and Mike Marqusee, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (1999), are biographies. Elliot J. Gorn (ed.), Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champ (1995), collects conference papers tracing his impact outside of boxing. Leon Gast, When We Were Kings (1996), is a documentary film concerning the 1974 fight between Ali and Foreman in Zaire.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invalidated site: BBC News - Muhammad Ali: The man who changed his sport and his country. | Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Added Top Questions and revised description of his Parkinson disease diagnosis. | Jul 24, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | May 30, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - Muhammad Ali. | Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC News - Muhammad Ali: Boxing great, charismatic entertainer. | Oct 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Civil Liberties Union - Muhammad Ali. | May 16, 2025 | ||
| Corrected the display of the Want to Learn More? section. | Feb 23, 2025 | ||
| Added a Want to Learn More? section. | Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Louisville Libraries - Muhammad Ali: A Transcendent Life: Home. | Sep 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Boxing Association - Bernard Hopkins: a titan of the ring. | Jul 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - The life of Muhammad Ali 1942-2016. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Sep 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Black History in America - Muhammad Ali "The Greatest". | Jul 02, 2023 | ||
| Links, photos, and videos added. | May 24, 2023 | ||
| Link added. | Jan 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History of Islam - Muhammad Ali. | Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN - Muhammad Ali fast facts. | Aug 22, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum - Muhammad Ali. | Apr 17, 2022 | ||
| Removed media. | Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| Added the 2019 and 2021 docuseries about his life and career. | Sep 22, 2021 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black” throughout article. | Jul 24, 2020 | ||
| Noted that he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. | Apr 26, 2018 | ||
| Revised characterization of Laila Ali's boxing career. | Mar 27, 2018 | ||
| Added mention of the film Ali (2001). | Feb 22, 2018 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Oct 19, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 17, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - Muhammad Ali Dies at 74: Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century. | Jan 02, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Muhammad Ali. | Jan 01, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Muhammad Ali, 'the Greatest', dies aged 74. | Jan 01, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Telegraph - Muhammad Ali dead at 74: tributes to the greatest of all time. | Jan 01, 2017 | ||
| Changed his death location from "Phoenix, Arizona" to "Scottsdale, Arizona." | Nov 10, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 05, 2016 | ||
| Noted that he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | Aug 05, 2016 | ||
| He died in 2016. | Jun 04, 2016 | ||
| Added video. | Dec 31, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Muhammad Ali: The man who changed his sport and his country. | Oct 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Maps of World - Biography of Muhammad Ali. | Oct 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast.org - Biography of Muhammad Ali. | Oct 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Muhammad Ali. | Oct 17, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Muhammad Ali. | Oct 17, 2014 | ||
| Noted the release of the documentary I Am Ali (2014). | Oct 10, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Boxing Hall of Fame - Biography of Muhammad Ali. | Aug 11, 2014 | ||
| Added Laila Ali's retirement from boxing. | Jan 25, 2012 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 15, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 09, 2007 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 26, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: TIME 100: Muhammad Ali. | May 11, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 11, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | May 04, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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