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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) [1] 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.
Adam Clayton Powell Sr. Adam Clayton Powell (May 5, 1865 [1] [2] – June 12, 1953) 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.
Black power is a political slogan and a name which ... New York politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. used ... Gloria Richardson, and Fay Bellamy Powell—participated ...
Adam Clayton "A.C." Powell IV (born Adam Clayton Powell Diago; [1] in 1962) is an American politician from the state of New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 2001 to 2010. From 1992 to 1997, he served as New York City Council Member representing East Harlem and parts of the Upper West Side and the South Bronx .
Jeffrey Wright also appears as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who provides much of the film's tension and conflict, not because he opposes the proposed march, but because he believes that ...
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Eta: First Black representative from New York (Harlem); chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee; first African American chairman of a major committee in the U.S. House of Representatives; early civil rights and racial equality legislation advocate; long-time pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church [84] Charles B ...
Powell is the ex-husband of Beryl Powell, daughter of Eileen and John J. Slocum. [4] This marriage attracted media attention as the union of two high-profile families of different ethnicities, his black, hers descended from early New England white colonists. [5] His son, Adam C. Powell IV, is a materials scientist. [6]
Booknotes interview with Hamilton on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., January 5, 1992, C-SPAN Stokely Carmichael & Hamilton C. V. (1967), Black Power: The Politics of Liberation , New York: Vintage Hamilton C. V. (1972), The Black Preacher in America , New York: William Morrow