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7 de jun. de 2010 · Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., February 2, 1955. Fair use image. On February 2, 1955, New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, then one of only three African Americans in the U.S. Congress, rose to argue that his colleagues should support two pending civil rights bills then before the House of Representatives. His speech appears below:
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Bio. Abstract. Powell discusses the state of organization, strategies, and prospects of the civil rights movement, as well as its leadership. Throughout the interview Powell refers to his own work in the 1930s as well as his legislation and other activities in Congress. He expresses a strong belief in nonviolence.
14 de feb. de 2024 · Adam Clayton Powell. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) 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 was the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York, as well as the ...
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To learn more about Adam Clayton Powell Jr., see Robert M. Lichtman, Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2022); and Louis Porter II, "An Unlikely Alliance: Adam Clayton Powell Sr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Seeds of Transformation," Cross Currents 64, no. 1, (2014 ...
1 de ene. de 2002 · Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Kensington Books, Jan 1, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 260 pages. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was loved; he was hated. He was admired; he was vilified. Few who heard this Congressman's fiery oratory or read his impassioned writings will forget him. Now a whole new generation will be introduced to this flamboyant ...
1 de feb. de 1993 · Such has been the case with Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. While two generations of Americans have been inspired by the brilliance and grieved at the martyrdom of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell may have been the single individual most responsible for much of the civil rights legislation that now impacts our lives.
