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Speech by Adam Clayton Powell given on April 10, 1969. Audio recording, from The University of Alabama's Emphasis Symposium on Contemporary Issues; Rushing, Lawrence, "The Racial Identity of Adam Clayton Powell Jr: A Case Study in Racial Ambivalence and Redefinition", Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, January 1, 2010
Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given ... New York politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. used ... (SNCC). On June 16, 1966, in a speech in ...
Adam Clayton Powell Jr., was the founder, editor, and co-publisher of The People's Voice.Powell was born in 1908 to Mattie Buster Shaffer and renowned Baptist preacher Adam Clayton Powell Sr. Powell founded The People's Voice after obtaining his college degree at Colgate University, and he served as the paper's editor until he was elected the first Black New York state representative in 1945.
The activist, after all, faced resistance not only from the white populace but also from members of the Black community, including NAACP executive Roy Wilkins (Chris Rock) and Rep. Adam Clayton ...
“In the 1960s, the Black power movement used it as a gesture to represent the struggle for civil rights.” Although the clenched fist would later be used by other oppressed groups, including ...
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.
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 ...
Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969), is a United States Supreme Court case that held that the Qualifications of Members Clause of Article I of the US Constitution is an exclusive list of qualifications of members of the House of Representatives, which may exclude a duly elected member for only those reasons enumerated in that clause.