| LC control no. | nr 92018777 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Carter, Rubin, 1937-2014 |
| Variant(s) | Carter, Hurricane, 1937-2014 |
| Biography/History note | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937-2014) was an American middleweight boxer wrongly convicted of murder. After spending almost 20 years in prison, he was freed via a petition of habeas corpus. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Canada |
| Birth date | 1937-05-06 |
| Death date | 2014-04-20 |
| Place of birth | Clifton (N.J.) |
| Place of death | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Field of activity | Boxing |
| Affiliation | United States. Army Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted |
| Profession or occupation | Boxers (Sports) Soldiers Authors |
| Found in | Chaiton, S. Lazarus and the hurricane, 1991: t.p. (Rubin "Hurricane" Carter) Can. CIP (Carter, Rubin, 1937-) LC in RLIN, 5-13-92 (hdg.: Carter, Rubin, 1937-) New York times (online), viewed Apr. 21, 2014 (in obituary published Apr. 20: Rubin (Hurricane) Carter; b. May 6, 1937, Clifton, N.J.; d. Sunday morning [Apr. 20, 2014], Toronto, aged 76; star prizefighter whose career was cut short by a murder conviction in New Jersey and who became an international cause célèbre while imprisoned for 19 years before the charges against him were dismissed) African American National Biography, accessed January 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Carter, Rubin "Hurricane"; boxer, soldier, autobiographer; born 06 May 1937 in Delawanna, New Jersey, United States; member of the Eleventh Airborne, sent to Germany, learned to box and won the European Light Welterweight Championship; discharged from the army (1956); professional fighter, fought Joey Giardello for the middleweight championship (1964); convicted of triple homicide and sentenced to life imprisonment (1967); protested the verdict while at Trenton State Prison and wrote his autobiography, The Sixteenth Round (1974); charges against him were officially dismissed (1988); moved to Toronto (1989); was appointed executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted; died 20 April 2014 in Toronto, Canada) Canadiana, August 25, 2020 (access point: Carter, Rubin, 1937-2014; variant: Carter, Hurricane, 1937-2014; born May 6, 1937 in Clifton, New Jersey; died April 20, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario; Rubin "Hurricane" Carter; American middleweight boxer wrongly convicted of murder and later freed via a petition of habeas corpus after spending almost 20 years in prison) |
| National bib agency no. | 0066L5029E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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