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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.
30 ott 2022 · Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend and civil rights activist, was descended from Abe Grady, an Irish immigrant from Ennis, County Clare. His mother, Odessa Grady Clay, was the great-granddaughter of Abe and a freed slave from Liberia.
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23 ago 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 stroke...
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.
26 mar 2020 · Learn about the special bond between the boxing legend and his mother, who was born Odessa Lee O'Grady in Kentucky. She was a domestic worker, a cook, a sewer and a supportive fan of her son's career.
23 ago 1994 · Odessa Clay was a devoted and supportive fan of her son's boxing career, traveling to see him fight around the world. She died in 1994 after a stroke, and Ali could not talk to her in recent months.
5 lug 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.
