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Introduction :

The Black Karate Federation, or BKF, represents a significant fact of the black movement in the U.S.A., during the 1970s. We will not detail the black American movements (eg: Martin Luther King, the Muslim movement of Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, etc.).

The BKF is also unrelated to the political demands of the above mentioned movements.

It is useful to understand the attitudes of the African American athletes from the USA, in many sports such as boxing, athletics and also karate.

The most famous example is Mohammed Ali, born Cassius Clay, changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964.

In 1967, Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. Also in boxing, the light-heavyweights World Champions Eddie Gregory and Matthew Franklin, have also changed their names in 1980 and 1979, in Eddie Mustafa Muhammad and Matthew Saad Muhammad, after a conversion to Islam.

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