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In a public conversation hosted by IFYC, filmmaker David McMahon shared a story that didn’t make it into his recent PBS documentary about Muhammad Ali.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was the mid-1960s, McMahon said, and a law student at the University of Chicago stood helplessly with a group of housing activists, watching police evict a man from his 2nd floor apartment. As the officers piled his furniture at the curb, she sensed someone approaching.<\/p>\n

“And there was Muhammad Ali. He took off his jacket and handed it to her,” picked up a table and walked it past the police officers and back inside, McMahon said. “Immediately everybody jumped in and did the same. Within a few minutes, they had restored the apartment. Then he came back to her, as she described it, in a kind of cinematic way and took the jacket from her and disappeared.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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