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Cassius Clay, the centerpiece of its thirty-first summer season. Idris Goodwin's 2016 award-winning drama will run August 14–24, 2025 at the Oakes Center. And in This Corner ...
MATTOON -- Guest speaker Robert Sterling discussed 19th century soldier and abolitionist Cassius Clay's connections to Coles County during the Mattoon Rotary Club meeting on July 21.
Get to know Muhammad Ali and the city that made him at these six Louisville locations In the summer of 1960, eighteen-year-old Cassius Clay traveled from his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to ...
Cassius Clay, then 17 years old, won the 175-pound Golden Gloves championship by defeating Australian Anthony Madigan in three rounds on March 25, 1959, at Chicago Stadium.
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky (USA), he rose to prominence after winning a gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics and, shortly after, becoming heavyweight world ...
Clay, the brash, young challenger from Louisville, Ky., had just 19 pro fights to that point and frankly wasn't considered much of a threat to Liston's crown.
Watch Chany Yemiru appraise Muhammad Ali & Cassius Clay Sr.-signed books in Living History Farms, Hour 3. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.
"Cassius Clay" is set during the boxer's early life, growing up in Jim Crow-era Louisville, Kentucky. Ocacio said he learned about the Jim Crow era and its laws outlining segregation in school.
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 25, 1964, a 22-year-old Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, became world heavyweight boxing champion for the ...
“And in this Corner: Cassius Clay” runs Feb. 21 through March 2 at the Theatre Guild, 2519 Northwestern Ave.
Laura Clay, one of Cassius Clay’s daughters, was born in 1849 at White Hall, near Richmond. She was raised largely by her mother while her father pursued political ambitions as an abolitionist.