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 Sr.
Powell c. 1910
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 Clayton Powell Sr.
…largest Protestant congregation in the country, with 10,000 members. He was an African American community activist, author, and the father of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Born into poverty in southwestern Virginia, Powell worked to put himself through school and Wayland Seminary, where he was ordained in 1892. After…
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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