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Odessa Clay (nee Grady), (February 12 1917 - August 20 1994), born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, the daughter of John L. Grady and Birdie Morehead. The mother of three-times World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali (born 1942) and Rudolph Valentino Clay, now Rahman Ali and grandmother of Laila Ali, she married Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. [1912-1990] in the 1930s and worked for some time as a household domestic to help support her young children.[1] “Cassius Clay†redirects here. ...
1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ...
Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...
Hopkins County is a county located in the state of Kentucky. ...
This is a chronological list of world heavyweight boxing champions, as recognized by the following organizations: The World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA), The World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963, The International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in 1983, and The World Boxing...
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Rahman Ali (born approx. ...
// Laila Ali was born December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach, to Muhammad Ali and his third wife Veronica Porsche Ali. ...
Early life One of her grandparents, Tom Moorehead, was the son of a white Moorehead and a slave named Dinah. Mrs. Clay's other grandfather was a white Irishman named Abe Grady, who emigrated to the United States from County Clare, Ireland, soon after the Civil War and married a "free colored woman" whose name is unknown.[2] County Clare (Contae an Chláir in Irish) is in the Irish province of Munster. ...
Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...
Like her husband, Cassius Sr., Odessa grew up in a segregated society in which African Americans did not enjoy the same rights and privileges as white Americans. It was hard for African Americans to find jobs. Odessa's mother worked as a domestic, taking care of the household chores and the young children of a white family. When Odessa became an adolescent, she dropped out of school and also found work as a domestic. Then, when she was sixteen years old, she met twenty-year-old Cassius, whom everyone referred to as 'Cash'. They soon married and settled into their own house in Louisville, Kentucky.[3] African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ...
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Influence on Muhammad Ali Through her strong Christian belief Odessa Grady Clay had a great influence on the life and spiritual upbringing of both of her sons, regularly taking them to church and teaching them to follow the Christian precept of 'loving their neighbour'. Muhammad Ali later said, "My mother is a Baptist, and when I was growing up, she taught me all she knew about God. Every Sunday, she dressed me up, took me and my brother to church, and taught us the way she thought was right. She taught us to love people and treat everybody with kindness. She taught us it was wrong to be prejudiced or hate. I've changed my religion and some of my beliefs since then, but her God is still God; I just call him by a different name. And my mother, I'll tell you what I've told people for a long time. She's a sweet, fat, wonderful woman, who loves to cook, eat, make clothes, and be with family. She doesn't drink, smoke, meddle in other people's business, or bother anyone, and there's no one who's been better to me my whole life."[4] Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box: A Christian () is a person who...
Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box: Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging...
Mrs. Clay supported and inspired her son throughout his boxing career. Whether at small gyms early in her son's boxing career or at international arenas when he became world famous, Odessa Clay traveled with her son and was a ring-side regular at his bouts.[5] Cassius Jr. was much closer to his mother, Odessa, whom he lovingly called "Bird", than to his father. She was his rock. After discovering boxing, it was his mother whom he confided to, "I'm gonna be champion of the world." He shared his dreams of greatness with her. And she encouraged him.[6]
Final days Odessa Clay died of heart failure on August 18 1994 at Hurstbourne Health Center, a nursing home, in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Mrs. Clay had been disabled by a stroke since February 1994, according to a family friend.[7] “Louisville†redirects here. ...
Odessa Grady Clay was the grandmother of Laila Ali. // Laila Ali was born December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach, to Muhammad Ali and his third wife Veronica Porsche Ali. ...
In the 2001 film Ali Odessa Grady Clay was played by Candy Ann Brown.[8] Ali is a 2001 biographical film which tells the story of boxer Muhammad Ali. ...
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