Found inside – Page 7Clay's father , Cassius Marcellus Clay , Sr. , was a sign painter , while his mother Odessa worked as a maid . The Clay family , which included Cassius's ... Found insideA Life in Pictures The Editors of LIFE ... He came from modest circumstances: His father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., earned a living painting signs and the ... Found inside – Page 11His father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. was named after the 19th century Republican politician from the state of Kentucky. He earned a living by painting ... Found inside – Page 31EARLY LIFE Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., a sign painter, ... Found insidedaughter to Odessa Grady Clay and Cassius Marcellus Clay Senior. Marcellus Clay Sr. was named in honor of 19th Century Cassius Marcellus Clay, ... Found inside – Page 10Under his original name, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., Muhammad Ali was the product of a ... Cassius Clay Sr., a frustrated artist- turned- sign- 10 CHAPTER ONE. Found insideCassius Marcellus Clay Jr, as Muhammad Ali was once known, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on 17 January 1942. Louisville was a ... Ali's father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr, supported a wife and two sons by painting billboards and signs. Found inside... Clay accepted the common beliefs and for the most part pushed women to the far corners of his life.2 Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. was a frustrated artist ... Found inside – Page 13This was the world into which Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on January 17, 1942. His father, Cassius Sr., was a sign painter. Found inside – Page 351Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., grew up in the American South in a time of ... Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., supported a wife and two sons by painting ... Found insideCassius Marcellus Clay Sr. was a man well known and not particularly well respected among his neighbors in ... He made a modest living as a sign painter. Found inside – Page 14Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. came into the world on January 17, 1942, and grew up in a ... Cassius Sr., who worked as a mural painter, was a heavy drinker, ... Found insideCassius Marcellus Clay,Jr.,as Ali was onceknown, was born in Louisville General ... His father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., earned a living painting ... Found inside – Page 7ON THAT DAY , A BABY BOY WAS BORN TO CASSIUS ( CASH - US ) CLAY SR . AND HIS WIFE , ODESSA . THEY NAMED THE CHILD CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY JR . Found inside – Page 15His father , Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. , was a stern disciplinarian , and Cassius both loved and feared him . Cassius Sr. painted billboards and signs for a living . Almost every Baptist church in Louisville owned one of his murals , showing ... Found inside – Page 83He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., a sign painter, and Odessa Clay, ... Found inside – Page 232Cassius Marcellus Clay was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Cassius Clay Sr., was a billboard and sign painter, and his mother, ... Found inside – Page 50After Clay's death , matters became even worse . Since Cassius owed outstanding property taxes , most of his possessions were sold at public auction on ... Found inside – Page 8May 23 , 1882 30.00 20.00 Cassius M. Clay , sr . ... of Cogswell's Independent Bat June 15 , 1878 20.00 tery , M. Lt. Art . Henry S. Cohn . Found inside – Page 15... was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, the eldest of two sons raised by Cassius Clay Sr., a sign painter and something of a ... Found inside – Page 189... Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 17, 1942. He was the first of two sons born to a sign painter and artist, Cassius Clay Sr., ... Found inside... Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay onJanuary 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Cassius' father, Cassius Clay, Sr., was a sign painter and anartist. Found inside – Page 15For Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., the segregation of Louisville was part of ... Cassius Sr. couldn't sell his artworks and had to resort to sign painting to ... Found inside... the labor power of steel miners, bridge builders, and the material and symbolic outputs of a road sign painter named Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. and ... Found inside – Page 5Cassius. Marcellus Clay Jr. was born in Louisville General Hospital at 6:35 P.M. on January ... and Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., a sign painter and muralist. Found inside – Page 78It's got wall - to - wall carpeting in every room and a picture painted right on the white plaster wall in the living room . Old Cash Clay did that mural himself . Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. is a sign painter . Up there where it says KING KARL'S ... Found insideOdessa Lee Grady grew up in Louisville where she subsequently met, fell in love with, and married a sign-painter, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. At 6.35 pm on ... Found inside – Page 21... Paintings and Drawings of J.B. Alberts, Jr. (Louisville 1931); Bettie M. ... Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. to Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. and ... Found insideCassius Clay Sr. was a painter in Louisville, Kentucky, a talented and flamboyant man who ... a man named Cassius Marcellus Clay an important politician. Found inside – Page 69Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., the boxer's father, was a handsome, unstable, ... his only satisfactory subjects art and gym; yet still he was graduated. Found insideHis father (Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.), a billboard and sign painter named for the nineteenthcentury emancipationist and politician of that name, ... Found insideCassius Marcellus Clay Sr., better known around Louisville as Cash, is the opposite of Bird ... he's painting masterpieces—old Bible scenes on church walls, ... Found inside – Page 53MUHAMMAD ALI Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. LORD ALLENBY ... His father was a commercial artist specializing in sign painting; he also painted murals for ... Found insideli was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942. Cassius Clay, Sr. was a sign painter and Odessa, his mother, ... Found insidePainting. Ever since I was very young, I have always had a passion for drawing ... My father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., was the best artist in the city of ... Found inside – Page 53He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky. ... His father, Cassius Clay Sr., was a sign painter and something of a ... Found insideli was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942. Cassius Clay, Sr. was a sign painter and Odessa, his mother,was a maid ... Found inside – Page 7Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. was a man well known and not particularly well respected among his neighbors in ... He made a modest living as a sign painter. Found inside – Page 174He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 17, 1942, the first son to a mural and sign painter and his wife, Odessa Clay. Found insideOn each rock a name has been painted by Ali's dad, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., in big red and bluetrimmed white letters. I read the names—Willie “The Wisp” ... Found inside – Page 139MUHAMMAD ALI'S TREK TO THE TOP Early Imprints Muhammad Ali entered the world as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17 , 1942. His parents , Cassius Sr. Found inside – Page 31... HAH - mahd ah - LEE ) was born Cassius Marcellus Clay , Jr. , in Louisville , Kentucky , to Cassius Marcellus Clay , Sr. , and Odessa Lee Grady Clay . His father was a commercial artist specializing in sign painting ; he also painted murals for ... Found insideIn 1955, Ali — then known as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. — turned thirteen in Louisville ... When Cassius Clay Sr., a sign painter, saw the photos of Till, ... Found inside – Page 31Like his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., Ali's original name was in ... His father possessed artistic talent, painting signs and religious motifs in ... Found inside – Page 48Early Life Cassius Marcellus Clay , Jr. , was born in Louisville , Kentucky , on January 17 , 1942 , the son of Cassius Marcellus Clay , Sr. , and Odetta Lee Grady Clay . His father was a commercial artist specializing in sign painting ; he also ... Found inside – Page 39It was art that Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., might have committed. At the gym door, visitors passed by the skeletal figure of Emmet Sullivan, ... Found inside – Page 200Cassius Marcellus Clay, Henry Slay Sr.'s cousin, an outright abolitionist would catch ... This is a patronage position to support an artist friendly to the ... Found inside – Page 263Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, ... His father, Cassius Clay Sr., was a sign painter and something of a ... Found inside – Page 54... 1942, Cassius Marcellus Clay entered this world in Louisville, Kentucky, as the son of Cassius Sr., a house painter, and Odessa, a maid.