In 1963, Cassius Clay nearly loses a boxing match to Henry Cooper at Wembley Stadium in Londo. At the Copacabana in New York City, soul singer Sam Cooke suffers through a performance in front of a cold, all-white audience. Returning home Georgia, NFL player Jim Brown is received by family friend Mr. Carlton on a vast plantation. Carlton move some furniture, Carlton uses a racial slur and informs Brown that he is not welcomed inside the home due to Brown 's blackness. Elsewhere, Malcolm X returns home and discusses he to leave the Nation of Islam with his wife, Betty
