Virginia Avenue Colored School historical marker

ID: 3883 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of Wave 3 news, Louisville, KY (https://www.wave3.com/2019/10/24/muhammad-ali-historical-marker-unveiled-west-end-school/). ~ Date: October 24, 2019.
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Virginia Avenue Colored School historical marker

Photo of the historical marker following the unveiling on October 24, 2019.

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By Andrew Washburn
Historical Marker #2593 stands at the site of Muhammad Ali’s grade school. Known at the time as the Virginia Avenue Colored School, Ali was a pupil there from 1948 to 1954. Ali, at the time called Cassius Clay, first began to hone his boxing…