What Role Did Muhammad Ali And Bill Russell Play In The Civil Rights Movement

IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF SOURCES
This paper will investigate “What role did Muhammad Ali and Bill Russell play in the civil rights movements in the 1960’s”. This subject got my attention because of the roles athletes have had in societies. Athletes have become a developed a huge role in society by speaking out social injustices. I will evaluates the civil rights movements and the role of athletes such Muhammad Ali and Bill Russell. I will assess how they whether they had a huge impact, what they accomplished and how they accomplished it. I will also talk about the movement of the civil rights and the impact of Muhammad Ali and Bill Russell’s actions.
Source: An excerpt from the ABC news, Muhammad Ali Refuses Army Induction, April

This video provided views with insights of Muhammad Ali’s thoughts and they waited on the actions the government would make on a celebrity such as Ali.
This source is valuable to the role Muhammad Ali played in the civil rights movements. This source shows a statement Ali’s stance on decline to join the Vietnam War. This video was released nine days after Ali refused his induction into the Army to help in the Vietnam War. This video shows a controversial statement Ali made on April, 20 1967 in Louisville Kentucky explaining the reason he rejected the draft into the army.
The source usefulness is limited. A limitation with this source is it a news that gives a perception on Muhammad Ali’s view. It does not include the public reaction or response to Ali’s statement. Also it was released by ABC thus it shows a certain perspective it wants its’ view to see. ABC recognized this was a huge story and it needed to present the story in a certain way to have its viewers interested.
Source: The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All-Time: Ranking Sports' Most Notorious Fixes, Cover-ups, and Scandals by Elliott

Russell was a sicker as child, he constantly faced illness. At an early age Russell recognized his life in the south was filled with racism, because it causes his father to move Russell family to Oakland, California. In 1952 Russell earned a walk on scholarship to the University of San Francisco. He ended put gaining a spot on the team and started to dominate. Russell was drafter second overall by the ST. Louis Hawks . Two years after Bill Russell signs with Boston, he involves an NBA player. He wins an Olympic gold medal, in the year 1958 Russell won his fifth Nba MVP . He thought that he had mustarded enough fame to talk about NBA's unwritten quota system for black players. According to Elliott Kalb in The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time, “… There was a quota system. The most number of blacks on a team was four, and no more. That just couldn’t be a coincidence. There were what, eleven or twelve players on every ream, and every team had four blacks on it. It was never written about, but everybody knew it .” Bill Russell pressured his team to have five black players. Although Bill Russell small movement was every little it had a huge effect. Russell speaking out pressures other NBA teams to add Black player onto their team because they did not want to be seen as racists. This led to a huge influx of NBA teams giving more black players an opportunity to showcase their skills. This