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 ...

(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 ...

The name Ali inherited from his father — Cassius Marcellus Clay — was in fact given ... said of the Yale-educated abolitionist: “no Southern man was so active in the anti-slavery case as Clay.” The ...

Houston — Cassius Marcellus Clay, 25, who began the day as heavyweight boxing champion of the world, refused induction into the Army Friday. He faces imprisonment and a fine, but legal sparring ...

More than 20,000 children in the city will see the Stage One play about the young Muhammad Ali who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr ... but what they don't know is Cassius Clay. They don't know the ...