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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkPOWELL, Adam Clayton, Jr.
(1908—1972)
POWELL, Adam Clayton, Jr., a Representative from New York; born in New Haven, Conn., November 29, 1908; attended the public schools of New York City; graduated from Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., 1930; graduated from Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1932; graduated from Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., 1934; ordained minister; member of the New York, N.Y., city council, 1941; newspaper publisher and editor; journalist; instructor, Columbia University Extension School, 1932-1940; cofounder of the National Negro Congress; member of the New York state, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration, 1942-1944; member of the Manhattan Civilian Defense 1942-1945; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-February 28, 1967); excluded from membership in the Ninetieth Congress pursuant to H.Res. 278, on February 28, 1967; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Eighty-seventh through Eighty-ninth Congresses); elected as a Democrat to the Ninetieth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by his exclusion but did not appear to be sworn in; reelected to the succeeding Congress (April 11, 1967-January 3, 1971); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Ninety-second Congress in 1970; died on April 4, 1972, in Miami, Fla.; cremated and ashes scattered over South Bimini in the Bahamas.
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New York: Dial Press, 1945.
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. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Alexander, E. Curtis. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: A Black Power Political Educator.
New York: ECA Associates, 1983.
Brooks, Albert N.D. “Profile of a Fighter.” Negro History Bulletin
20 (May 1957).
Capeci, Dominic J., Jr. “From Different Liberal Perspectives: Fiorello La Guardia, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Civil Rights in New York City, 1941-1943.” Journal of Negro History
62 (April 1977): 160-73.
———. “From Harlem to Montgomery: The Bus Boycotts and Leadership of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Martin Luther King.” Historian
41 (August 1979): 721-37.
———. The Harlem Riot of 1943.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977.
Coleman, Emmett. The Rise, Fall, and ...? of Adam Clayton Powell.
New York: Bee-Line Books, 1967.
Dionisopoulos, P. Allan. Rebellion, Racism, and Representation: The Adam Clayton Powell Case and Its Antecedents.
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1970.
Gunther, Lenworth A., III. “Flamin’ Tongue: The Rise of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., 1908-1941.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1985.
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Kindregan, Charles P. “The Cases of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Julian Bond: The Right of Legislative Bodies to Exclude Members-Elect.” Suffolk University Law Review
2 (Winter 1968): 58-80.
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McAndrews, Lawrence J. “The Rise and Fall of the Powell Amendment.” Griot
12 (Spring 1993): 52-64.
Nutting, Charles B. “The Powell Case and Separation of Powers.” American Bar Association Journal
54 (May 1968): 503-5.
Paris, Peter J. Black Leaders in Conflict: Joseph H. Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
New York: Dial Press, 1971.
———. Keep the Faith, Baby!
New York: Triden Press, 1967.
———. Marching Blacks: An Interpretive History of the Rise of the Black Common Man.
1945. Revised, New York: Dial Press, 1973.
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. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
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Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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