It's not so bad for politicians and Pulitzer Prize poets and certain intellectuals in this country to sign petitions and speak out against the war in Vietnam, but when Cassius Clay did it he paid ...

Throughout history, the famed boxer has made headlines, including his stance on the Vietnam War ... Muhammad Ali was known by his birth name, Cassius Clay. However, quora.com reported that ...

Muhammad Ali Born Cassius Clay in Louisville ... who had stipulated that the champ not serve in a ‘white man’s war,’" Paul Beston wrote in an editorial for The Wall Street Journal in ...

Some people say that my friend Cassius ... Clay is an arrogant, overbearing young man. They don’t like his Muslim religion, and they don’t like the things the heavyweight champ has said about ...

When Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali, and when he later refused the call of the military during the war in Vietnam, he was not universally cheered. Hardly. Ali was not prepared to ...

Yet Ali’s most enduring legacy remains his bold political resistance against the Vietnam War ... and cultural storm. As Cassius Clay, the “Louisville Lip,” struck the world as a bracingly ...

When heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay changed his ... suppression of the publication made Clay a hero in the anti-slavery movement. The Yale alumnus later served as a captain in the ...

Cassius Clay wanted to be the king of the world ... In those days — four years before the Vietnam War escalated — the dividing line was personality, not politics. Clay defended the United ...

Civil rights activism was gearing up, the conflict in Vietnam was moving into U.S. headlines. Feb. 25, 1964: A crowd of 8,297 saw a brash 22-year-old named Cassius Clay live up to the oversized ...