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Odessa Lee Clay (née O'Grady; February 12, 1917 – August 20, 1994) was the mother of three-time world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Rahaman Ali, and the paternal grandmother of Laila Ali. She married Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. in the 1930s and worked for some time as a household domestic to help support her young children.
Oct 30, 2022 · Odessa Grady Clay, Cassius Clay's mother, was the great-granddaughter of the freed slave Tom Morehead and of John Grady of Ennis, whose son Abe had emigrated from...
Jun 25, 2023 · Muhammad Ali Mother, Odessa Grady Clay. Odessa Grady Clay was always supportive of Ali’s boxing career. She was born in Hopkins County in western Kentucky. Odessa tied the knot with Cassius in 1930, but by 1980 they had gone their separate ways but lived in Louisville, as per New York Times.
Aug 23, 1994 · Odessa Lee Grady Clay, mother of the three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, died Sunday at the Hurstbourne Health Center, a nursing home. She was 77 and had been disabled by a...
The Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali, with his mother, Odessa Grady Clay in 1963. AP. Then, it was more of an abstract concept, a statement against white oppression; Ali did not know much, if anything, about his ancestors or his own family tree.
Jul 5, 2022 · Odessa Lee Clay (née Grady) (February 12, 1917 – August 20, 1994) was the mother of three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali and Rudolph Valentino Clay, now Rahman Ali and grandmother of Laila Ali.
Aug 23, 1994 · Odessa Lee Grady Clay, who died Sunday at 77, was her son’s biggest booster during his rise to the heavyweight championship. During the days when women were a rare sight in boxing, Clay “went ...
