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Odessa Grady Clay
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. She married Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. in the 1930s and worked for some time as a household domestic to help support her young children.〔(Muhammed Ali ) at ''The Biography Channel''〕
==Early life==
She was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, one of six children of John Lewis Grady and Birdie B. Morehead. Her paternal grandfather was a white Irishman named Abe Grady, who emigrated to the United States from Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, soon after the Civil War and married a daughter of Lewis and Amanda J. "Mandy" Walker of Todd County, Kentucky.〔("Muhammad Ali the Irishman given hero's welcome in Ennis, County Clare", ) ''The Times'', September 2, 2009〕 Her maternal grandfather, Tom Morehead, was the son of a white Morehead and a slave named Dinah. Morehead served in the 122nd USCT.〔(Irish Cultural Society of San Antonio )〕
Odessa Clay grew up in a segregated society in which African Americans were denied many of the rights and privileges of white Americans. African Americans faced discrimination in finding jobs. Clay's parents separated when she was young,〔Hauser, p. 18〕 and her mother worked as a domestic, taking care of the household chores and the young children of a white family. Clay was raised partly by her aunt.〔 When she became an adolescent, she dropped out of school and also found work as a domestic. Then, when she was sixteen years old, she met twenty-year-old Cassius, whom everyone referred to as "Cash". They soon married and settled into their own house in Louisville, Kentucky.〔(Chapter Excerpt: Muhammad Ali by Matt Christopher )〕 The Clays' marriage was troubled. Ali told boxing promoters, "She's afraid of him".〔
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