Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, made famous by such supporters as Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali, died April 20 in Toronto of prostate cancer. He was 76. Carter is the subject of Dylan’s masterfully written 1975 protest song recounting the story of the young man’s arrest in 1966 and false conviction for triple murder. Dylan visited Carter in prison and began to write the song with Jacques Levy. The 8-minute opus — found on the 1976 album Desire — helped bring further attention to Carter’s case and wrongful imprisonment. In 1988, all charges were dropped. From 1993 until 2005, Carter was the executive director of Canada’s Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. Buy the song here. — K.B.