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There's an Incredible True Story Behind the Meeting of Black Legends in'One Night in Miami' Gabrielle Bruney © Elaine Chung While One Night in Miami, the Oscar buzz-generating new Netflix movie is fictionalized, the broader strokes are true. Here's the true story behind the famous night in 1964, where friends Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown all spent an evening together in a Miami hotel in a once-in-a-lifetime meeting of legends. The scenario—four Black legends from the worlds of music, sports, and politics, all gathered at the height of the Civil Rights...

Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown really did spend an evening together in 1964.

Elaine Chung The scenario—four Black legends from the worlds of music, sports, and politics, all gathered at the height of the Civil Rights struggle—seems almost too cinematic to be true. And while One Night in Miami, the Oscar buzz-generating new film directed by Academy Award- and Emmy-winning If Beale Street Could Talk and Watchmen star Regina King, is fictionalized, the broader strokes are true. In 1964, friends Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) all spent an evening together in a Miami hotel in a once-i...