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Adam Clayton Powell (May 5, 1865 – 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.
6 de feb. de 2008 · Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. was born on May 5, 1865, in Franklin County, Virginia to former slaves of African American, Native American, and German ancestry. He was raised in a family of seventeen children. During his youth, Powell lived a reckless life filled with gambling.
28 de feb. de 2017 · by Jerrod Hugenot | Feb 28, 2017 | Opinion. The Abyssinian Baptist Church surely is among the great congregations to rise up and minister to the urban multitudes in the history of New York City churches. Among their past ministers, Adam Clayton Powell Sr. is among the most visionary.
Early life and education. Powell was born in 1908 in New Haven, Connecticut, the second child and only son of Adam Clayton Powell Sr. and Mattie Buster Shaffer, born poor in Virginia and West Virginia, respectively. [3] His sister, Blanche, was 10 years older.
He was a Black clergyman and author. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. was born in Franklin County, Virginia, to slave parents Anthony and Sally Dunning Powell. He was one of the most famous African American churchmen of his time. Converted in 1885, he decided to study law and politics.
23 de oct. de 2017 · His father, Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., led Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, to become the largest black Protestant church in America. Although he was not directly involved in politics like his son, Powell, Sr., played a role in the civil rights struggles of the first half of the 20th century.
In the fall of 1929, Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., pastor of one of the best known black. churches in the United States, Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, launched a. campaign against homosexuality and other "vices" in the African American.
