On October 19, 1810, Green Clay, cousin of former Senator Henry Clay, and Sally Lewis welcomed their son, Cassius Marcellus Clay ... despite his abolitionist beliefs. He was one of the first ...

Mel Hankla will discuss the 19th century abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Civil War Round Table at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 320 Second St., Marietta.

CAMBRIDGE — Caden Stoldt will speak on Cassius Marcellus Clay ... Ohio Civil War Roundtable. Clay, who Mohammed Ali was originally named after, was a fervent abolitionist and Lincoln's ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay. Born in 1810, Clay defied his slave-owning and influential Kentucky family when he became an abolitionist during his student days at Yale. A speech by William Lloyd ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University administrator and faculty member reckons with the contradictions of America’s antislavery movement in a forthcoming biography of U.S. Civil War figure ...

The name Ali inherited from his father — Cassius Marcellus Clay — was in fact given to his dad in honor of Cassius M. Clay, a fervent abolitionist who graduated from Yale in 1832.* Judith Schiff, ...

LEXINGTON, Ky., July 22.-Gen. Cassius Marcellus Clay, Minister to Russia under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, noted abolitionist and author, died at his home, "White Hall," in Madison County ...

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 ...

Lexington filmmaker Michael Breeding knew that the life of Cassius Marcellus ... He will portray abolitionist John G. Fee, who founded Berea College on 10 acres that Clay gave him.

In the June 3, 1845, issue of Cassius Marcellus Clay’s The True ... that The True American may be a tool for abolitionists. Another criticism of Clay (who resided at White Hall in Madison ...

even though he was named after his father who was named after Cassius Marcellus Clay, a 19th century abolitionist. First, Ali changed his name to Cassius X, using the system that many members of ...