So who was the original Cassius Clay? The simple answer is that he was a prominent abolitionist politician in the mid-1800s. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and was appointed ...

One thing about Cassius Clay. He is a man of his word. “I’m gonna shake up this town,” said the world’s heavy weight champion last week — and he did. The town was New York. Announcing ...

CASSIUS M. CLAY DEAD; Famous Abolitionist Dies at "White Hall," His Kentucky Home. ... As a politician he was especially famous for his anti-slavery crusades in Kentucky, ...

According to the post, Trump claimed that he had sparred with Cassius Clay. Clay was the birth name of professional heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, who died in 2016.

In the June 3, 1845, issue of Cassius Marcellus Clay’s The True American a diatribe, written by “a Whig” warned all slaveowners to be vigilant for periodicals criticizing slavery. He ...

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 Cassius Clay "Shocks The World" By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com. Feb. 25, 1964. Few give 22-year-old Cassius Clay much of a chance to dethrone heavyweight champ ...

From the Beatles touching down in America and sending fans into a frenzy, to underdog Cassius Clay (soon to be known as Muhammad Ali) shocking the world by defeating Sonny Liston, 1964 was ...

Kent Greene, 83, won the Chicago Golden Gloves multiple times in the late 1950s, but it was his TKO of a then little-know boxer named Cassius Clay in 1958 that grabs most people's attention.

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Sept. 12, 1966. It is republished unedited in its original form. FRANKFURT, Germany — Cassius Clay, surprised and stung in ...