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 ...

This is the story of Cassius Marcellus Clay — not that ... had caused to be built to protect his printing office.” But the vital legacy of General Clay’s early life has endured down the ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Minister to Russia under Presidents ... the same brass cannon he had caused to be built to protect his printing office from the mobs in 1845. Aside from this delusion ...

He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville ... I do my talking in the ring." Clay talked, inside the ring and out. The press called him the "Louisville Lip," "Cash the Brash," "Mighty ...

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. —Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3 But there was. In Miami Beach last week, Cassius Marcellus ... yelled Cassius Clay at the press conference.

Houston — Cassius Marcellus Clay ... by appeals and other legal maneuvers by Clay’s lawyers. In a statement which Clay distributed to the press, he said, “I strongly object to the fact ...

The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay, Including his Speeches, and Addresses (1848) chronicled his political and social opinions. The famed editor of the New York Tribune and abolitionist, Horace ...

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.