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 ...

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 ...

was named after a Kentucky slave owner turned abolitionist. The original Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903), nicknamed ... According to biographer David Smiley in his book The Lion of White ...

We have "Muhammad Ali, 1986." You have a second book. You have "Muhammad Ali," and below that, "Cassius Clay, Sr." Which is his father. Many people know, obviously, that Muhammad Ali used to be ...

When heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali after converting to Islam, he stated that his birth name was “a slave name,” adding, “I didn’t choose it and I don’t want ...

MATTOON -- Guest speaker Robert Sterling discussed 19th century soldier and abolitionist Cassius Clay's connections to Coles County during the Mattoon Rotary Club meeting on July 21. Sterling ...

Clement Comer Clay and brother, Brutus J. Clay. Cassius graduated from Yale University where he heard abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison speak, which inspired Clay to become an anti-slavery crusader.

One of his former slaves, Herman Heaton Clay, named his son Cassius Clay in honor of the abolitionist. That Cassius Clay then named his son Cassius Clay Jr., who would ultimately become the ...