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CodeDS/UK/17001
NameMcClure; Wilbert (1938-); American boxer, boxing commissioner, academic
Dates1938-
GenderMale
BiographyWilbert McClure (born 29 October 1938) is an American middleweight boxer. McClure won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and was a fellow team member of Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay).

McClure earned degrees in literature and philosophy in 1961 from the University of Toledo and a doctorate in psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1973. He later became a Massachusetts State Boxing Commissioner. He was honored in August 2012 for his life's work by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School

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