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 ...

The remarks and actions were even more controversial than the former Cassius Clay’s conversion to Islam in 1964. The Vietnam War was popular at the time in the U.S., and the sight of a man ...

"Why print a story about Cassius Clay getting $50million for the use ... where opposition to the Vietnam War had blossomed in the years since his case had begun. Ali told The Courier-Journal ...

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 ...

After declaring himself a conscientious objector and refusing to be drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in the Vietnam War, the Louisville boxer born Cassius Clay was stripped of his titles ...

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 ...

On Feb. 25, 1964, 22 years after his birth in Louisville, Kentucky, and a year before his rebirth as Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay beat ... objector to the Vietnam War, and his refusal in 1967 ...

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.