Muhammad Ali (56-5, 37 KOs); was born Cassius Clay on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, and rightfully earned the nickname “The Greatest”. During his prestigious career, there were ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Minister to Russia under Presidents ... As a politician he was especially famous for his anti-slavery crusades in Kentucky, having become imbued with abolition principles ...

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 ...

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, emerged from humble beginnings in Louisville, Kentucky, where he began boxing at the age of 12. His journey to greatness began when he won a gold medal ...

MATTOON -- Guest speaker Robert Sterling discussed 19th century soldier and abolitionist Cassius ... about this Kentucky planter, known as "the Lion of White Hall." Clay, who was the son of ...

Cassius Clay is Hercules, struggling through the twelve ... and lost only eight. He won six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles, two national Golden Gloves championships, two national A.A.U. titles.

Aware that Cassius Clay was a slave name in Kentucky during the nineteenth century, Ali told a phalanx of reporters that Clay meant “dirt with no ingredients.” Malcolm X is also credited with ...

Bochetto and his business partner at the time renovated the frame house to how it looked when Ali — known then as Cassius Clay — lived ... of Louisville history, Kentucky history and I think ...

Kentucky has always punched beyond its weight ... after the famous Lexington abolitionist who was a cousin of the Senator. Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964 after he converted ...