Editing Rubin Carter (section)

== Early life ==
Carter was born in [[Clifton, New Jersey]] in 1937, the fourth of seven children.<ref name="McLaughlin">{{cite web|last=McLaughlin|first=Eliott C.|title=Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter still fighting long after boxing days pass|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/26/rubin.hurricane.carter.book/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303100557/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/26/rubin.hurricane.carter.book/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 3, 2011|work=CNN|access-date=January 10, 2014}}</ref> He later admitted to a troubled relationship with his father, a strict disciplinarian. At the age of eleven, he was sentenced to a [[juvenile reformatory]] for assault, having stabbed a man who alleged had tried to sexually assault him.<ref name="Tel o">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10778176/Rubin-The-Hurricane-Carter-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10778176/Rubin-The-Hurricane-Carter-obituary.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Rubin 'The Hurricane' Carter - obituary|date=21 April 2014|work=Telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Carter escaped from the reformatory in 1954 and joined the [[United States Army]].<ref name="McLaughlin"/> A few months after completing [[basic training]] at [[Fort Jackson (South Carolina)|Fort Jackson]], [[South Carolina]], he was sent to [[West Germany]].<ref name=salon>{{cite web|last=Houston|first=Frank|title=Storm of the century|url=http://www.salon.com/1999/12/24/hurricanecarter/|work=Salon|date=24 December 1999|access-date=January 10, 2014}}</ref> While in [[West Germany]], Carter began to box for the Army.<ref name="salon"/> He was discharged in 1956 as unfit for service, after four courts-martial.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/24/the-hurricane-rubin-carter-denzel-washington |title=The Hurricane: the facts of Rubin Carter's life story are beaten to a pulp &#124; Film &#124; The Guardian |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=24 April 2014 }}</ref> Shortly after his discharge, he returned home to New Jersey, was convicted of two muggings and sent to prison.<ref>
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