Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

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human professional boxer wrongfully convicted person

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was an American middleweight boxer whose controversial murder conviction and later exoneration made him a prominent symbol of racial injustice.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → professional boxer → wrongfully convicted person →
boxRecID	000090 →
causeOfDeath	prostate cancer →
conflict	Korean War →
convertedTo	Islam →
convictedOf	triple homicide in 1967 →
convictionStatus	conviction overturned →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1937-05-06 →
dateOfConviction	1967 → 1976 →
dateOfDeath	2014-04-20 →
dateOfExoneration	1985 →
employer	Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted →
ethnicGroup	African American →
exoneratedBy	United States District Court for the District of New Jersey →
familyName	Carter →
givenName	Rubin →
hasReligion	Islam →
inspiredWork	film "The Hurricane" (1999) → song "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan →
knownFor	being wrongfully convicted of triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey → campaigns for his release becoming a symbol of racial injustice in the United States →
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned	English →
legalStatus	exonerated →
militaryBranch	United States Army →
movement	civil rights movement →
nickname	Hurricane →
notableWork	The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 →
numberOfDraws	1 →
numberOfLosses	12 →
numberOfWins	27 →
numberOfWinsByKO	19 →
occupation	author → boxer → motivational speaker →
participantIn	legal case State of New Jersey v. John Artis → legal case State of New Jersey v. Rubin Carter →
placeOfBirth	Clifton, New Jersey, United States →
placeOfDeath	Toronto, Ontario, Canada →
portrayedBy	Denzel Washington →
positionHeld	executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted →
residence	Paterson, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED → Toronto, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED →
sexOrGender	male →
sport	boxing →
totalFights	40 →
weightClass	middleweight →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Hurricane (Bob Dylan song) →	characterInLyrics
Desire →	hasSongAbout
The Hurricane →	leadCharacter
Hurricane (Bob Dylan song) →	mainSubject
Hurricane (Bob Dylan song) →	namedAfter
Hurricane (Bob Dylan song) →	narrativeFocus
The Hurricane →	subject