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Reuben, the legend of Carter
Rubin Carter, a former American black boxer, died of prostate cancer at his home in Toronto, Canada on April 20, 2004, at the age of 76. Carter 196 1 was born in Clifton, New Jersey, USA, and began to enter American middleweight professional boxing. Although Carter is shorter than the average middleweight boxer, his aggressive play and powerful punches helped him win 27 victories in his professional boxing career in the next five years, so he was nicknamed "Hurricane". 1993, the World Boxing Association awarded him the middleweight champion gold belt, and Carter was later elected to the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame. However, Carter's professional boxing career ended because of an unjust case. 1966 was arrested on suspicion of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was finally acquitted in 1985. Carter moved to Toronto, Canada after he was released from prison, and served as the managing director of the unjust prison defense association from 65438 to 2005. According to the Associated Press reported on the 20th, Carter's unjust case is an internationally famous case symbolizing racial injustice in the United States. 1966, Carter and his friend John Arthus were arrested by the police in Paterson, New Jersey on suspicion of shooting two men and a woman. Without conclusive material evidence and witness, the judge still convicted Carter and Arthus twice in 1967 and 1976, and Carter was sentenced to life imprisonment. Carter, who was unjustly imprisoned, finished his autobiography "The Sixteenth Reunion" in prison. Autobiography published in 1975. The publication of this autobiography has attracted more public attention and support. Bob Dylan, a famous American rock folk artist, visited Carter in prison on 1975, and then wrote an eight-minute song named Hurricane for Carter. After nearly 20 years of injustice, the US federal court ruled again with 1985 that the charges against Carter were based on racial discrimination, not objective facts, and declared Carter innocent. Carter's story was adapted into the movie Hurricane 1999, with the famous American movie star Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. as Carter.