(Owen Carey) By Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive Before Muhammad Ali was The Greatest, he was Cassius Marcellus ... black man himself, doesn’t pull punches with that theme: Odessa Clay ...

(Clay was 15 when that Mississippi killing took place.) Surrounded by Jim Crow, the man who would become ... Goodwin reminds us that Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. and his father were named for ...

Truth is, Ali’s father—Cassius Marcellus Clay ... Cassius Clay was the name of an emancipator, and Muhammad Ali was the name of a free man. Historians explain how the past informs the present ...

Images: AP/Everett Collection Composite: Mark Kelly Start with a towering figure who contributed significantly to the cause of liberation and union, Cassius Marcellus Clay. Born in 1810 ...

"I'm my own man and I feel ... similar to those of Cassius. "I hit and move," he explains. "The object is to strike and not be struck." Rudy's manager is Cassius Marcellus Clay, the father of ...

Clay whips up the fierce reactions as a one-man theatre of the absurd ... Last Wednesday Cassius Marcellus Clay was to meet Doug Jones in a ten-round heavyweight boxing bout at Madison Square ...

Truth is, Ali’s father—Cassius Marcellus Clay ... self-naming is one of the pillars of self-liberation. Cassius Clay was the name of an emancipator, and Muhammad Ali was the name of a free man.