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Adam Clayton Powell Jr., né le 29 novembre 1908 à New Haven (Connecticut) et mort le 4 avril 1972 à Miami , est un pasteur baptiste et un homme politique américain, qui est le premier Afro-Américain à devenir un membre influent du Congrès.
29 de ago. de 2019 · Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is flanked by reporters, supporters, and onlookers after being accused of misusing government funds, 1967.. Robert Abbott Sengstacke /Getty Images. Powell also faced a backlash for not paying a 1963 slander judgment to a woman he had characterized as a “bag woman” for gamblers and crooked cops.
15 de feb. de 2016 · Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on November 29, 1908 to Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and Mattie Schaffer. His father was a Baptist preacher and soon after his birth the family relocated to New York City when his father took over as pastor at the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Founded by African-Americans and Ethiopian seamen ...
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. also made businesses along 125th Street in Harlem, New York promise at least one-third of their salespeople would be black. Powell organized a picket line and the 1939 New York World's Fair at the Fair's executive offices in the Empire State Building; as a result, the number of black employees was increased from about 200 to 732.
28 de nov. de 2008 · This has been a week of a wide range of activities recalling the history of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the legendary Harlem congressman who would have turned 100 years old on Saturday.. A number of politicians, journalists and scholars will gather at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Saturday to discuss the legacy of Powell, the first African-American elected to Congress from ...
Biography: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908-1972) was an African American politician, pastor, and civil rights activist. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and received a master's degree in religious education from Columbia University. He rose to prominence as a civil rights activist in Harlem in the 1930s and succeeded his father as pastor ...
Adam Clayton Powell. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (* 29.November 1908 in New Haven, Connecticut; † 4. April 1972 in Miami, Florida) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und Bürgerrechtler.Zwischen 1945 und 1971 vertrat er mit einer Unterbrechung den Bundesstaat New York im US-Repräsentantenhaus.Er war der erste Afroamerikaner, der für New York in den Kongress gewählt wurde.
