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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.
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...
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...
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.
Mar 26, 2020 · Odessa Clay died of heart failure on August 20, 1994 aged 77 at Hurstbourne Health Center, a nursing home in the Louisville, Kentucky area. She had been disabled by a stroke since February...
Odessa Lee Clay was born in Hopkins County in western Kentucky. Her parents, John Grady and Birdie Morehead Grady, were divorced about 50 years ago, after which . Grady moved to...
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...
