STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University administrator and faculty member reckons with the contradictions of ...

CAMBRIDGE — Caden Stoldt will speak on Cassius Marcellus Clay at the meeting of the Southeastern Ohio Civil War Roundtable. Clay, who Mohammed Ali was originally named after, was a fervent ...

So who was the original Cassius Clay? The simple answer is that he was a prominent abolitionist politician in the mid-1800s. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and was appointed ...

MATTOON -- Guest speaker Robert Sterling discussed 19th century soldier and abolitionist Cassius ... Lion of White Hall." Clay, who was the son of a Revolutionary War general, graduated from ...

The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay, Including his Speeches, and Addresses (1848) chronicled his political and social opinions. The famed editor of the New York Tribune and abolitionist, Horace ...

For Ali, the name Cassius Clay was a name associated with the slave ... Lewis was taken to the US in 1860. When the Civil War ended in 1865, Lewis became a free man. Lewis spent much of his ...

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, emerged from humble beginnings ... to not only excel in the ring but also to advocate for civil rights. In 1964, Ali shook the world when he defeated ...