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As told in Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, Clay traveled with recruiter Sam Saxon in early June 1962 to see Elijah Muhammad speak for the first time at an NOI rally in Detroit, Michigan.

Prior to the rally, Saxon brought Clay to meet Malcolm X, the minister of New York City's Mosque No. 7, at a Detroit diner. Although he knew nothing about Clay's growing prominence in the boxing world, the Muslim leader quickly sensed a "contagious quality" about the imposing but affable athlete.

And Clay, reared in segregated Louisville, Kentucky, was floored when he attended the rally and heard Malcolm X deliver the sort of explosive oratory that commanded the attention of those who endured the pains and humiliations of an unequal society.

"My first impression of Malcolm X was how could a Black man talk about the government and white people and act so bold and not be shot at?" the boxer later recalled. "He was fearless. That really attracted me."

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