Boxing legend Muhammad Ali ... that it “meant a lot to Jacob” that Ali was there. Ali, who was raised a Baptist named Cassius Clay, converted to Islam in the 1960s and changed his name.

Molander realized that it was a local interview provided by ... He changed his name to Muhammad Ali that same year when he converted to Islam. In 1967, he was stripped of his title and banned ...

Elijah Muhammad officially enrolled him into the Nation of Islam and re-named him Muhammad Ali at the Nation of Islam's annual convention to which Malcolm was not invited. Soon Malcolm broke with ...