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
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
Adam Clayton Powell Sr.
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Adam Clayton Powell was an American pastor who developed the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, as the largest Protestant congregation in the country, with 10,000 members. He was an Africa
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
…seat in 1970 to Charles Rangel and retired from electoral politics. Powell was born in 1908 in New Haven, Connecticut, the second child and only son of Adam Clayton Powell Sr. and Mattie Buster Shaffer, born poor in Virginia and West Virginia, respectively. His sister, Blanche, was 10 years older. His parents were of mixed…
Adam Clayton Powell Sr.
Powell c. 1910