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Clay v. United States
United States Supreme Court. "Clay v. United States." 403 U.S. 698 (1971). https://www.oyez.org/cases/1970/783.
Why this matters here
Clay v. United States (1971) overturned Muhammad Ali’s draft-evasion conviction, restoring a legal record after years of sporting and civic sanction. The Game We Think We Saw uses that arc—and parallel Olympic protest cases—to ask how history learns to keep a portable gesture while the contemporaneous reception treated the athlete as disloyal, shrinking meaning even when the record stays accurate.
