Odessa met and married Cassius Clay, Sr. and on January 17, 1942, Cassius junior was born.Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali when he became a Muslim in 1964.Ali, an Olympic gold medalist at the 1960 games in Rome, has been suffering from Parkinson's for some years but was committed to raising funds for his centerDuring his visit to Clare, he was mobbed by tens of thousands of locals who turned out to meet him and show him the area where his great-grandfather came from.Historian Dick Eastman had traced Ali’s roots back to Abe Grady the Clare emigrant to Kentucky and the freed slave he married.Eastman wrote: “An 1855 land survey of Ennis, a town in County Clare, Ireland, contains a reference to John Grady, who was renting a house in Turnpike Road in the center of the town.
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She named her son Cassius in honor of a famous Kentucky abolitionist of that time.When he changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 1964, the famous boxer remarked, "Why should I keep my white slavemaster name visible and my black ancestors invisible, unknown, unhonored?
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Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. View the profiles of people named Abe O Grady. He came back still a brilliant boxer, but the man who could float like a butterfly could never quite recover that greatness.Still, the fights with Joe Frazier, the rope-a-dope that saw him defeat George Foreman in Zaire in the "Rumble in the Jungle" will forever enshrine his name in history.The astonishing fact that he had Irish roots, being descended from Abe Grady, an Irishman from Ennis, County Clare, only became known later in life.He returned to Ireland where he had fought and defeated Al “Blue” Lewis in Croke Park in 1972 almost seven years ago in 2009 to help raise money for his non–profit Muhammad Ali Center, a cultural and educational center in Louisville, Kentucky, and other hospices.He was also there to become the first Freeman of the town.The boxing great is no stranger to Irish shores and previously made a famous trip to Ireland in 1972 when he sat down with Cathal O’Shannon of RTE for a fascinating television interview.What’s more, genealogist Antoinette O'Brien discovered that one of Ali’s great-grandfathers emigrated to the United States from County Clare, meaning that the three-time heavyweight world champion joins the likes of President Obama and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as prominent African-Americans with Irish heritage.In the 1860s, Abe Grady left Ennis in County Clare to start a new life in America. He settled in Kentucky. Delivering the News (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series) de Thomas O'Grady et d'autres livres, articles d'art et de collection similaires disponibles sur AbeBooks.fr. A few years later, his son Abe Grady immigrated to the United States. Memorial has been sponsored successfully.
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