435 Convent Avenue
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435 Convent Avenue is a six-story granite, brick, and terra cotta cooperative apartment building called The Garrison Apartments, Inc. It stands at the southeast corner of Convent Avenue and West 149th
The Garrison Apartments, Inc., 435 Convent Avenue
The New York Age, October 2, 1926.
New York Amsterdam News, October 15, 1930; p 23.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He wa
435 Convent Avenue
…Abyssinian Baptist Church, which he built into the largest Protestant congregation in the country with more than 10,000 members. He lived in apartment 3. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., civil rights leader, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, the first Black Councilman in New York City, and the first Black US Representative from any…
Adam Clayon Powell Jr
Powell's Colgate University portrait c. 1930
Powell addressing a citizens' committee mass meeting, November 1942
A Harlem newsboy stands next to a flyer for People's Voice, May 1943