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 ...

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 ...

Clay wasted no time rubbing his win into the faces of a naysaying media, shouting, as the magazine reported: “Hypocrites!” yelled Cassius Clay at the press conference. “Whatcha gonna say now ...