Adam Clayton Powell Jr. - Keep The Faith, Baby (1967)

Описание: Adam Powell
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Member of the
United States House of Representatives
from New York
In office
January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1971
Preceded by Walter A. Lynch
Succeeded by Charles Rangel
Constituency 22nd district (1945–1953)
16th district (1953–1963)
18th district (1963–1971)
Personal details
Born Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
November 29, 1908
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Died April 4, 1972 (aged 63)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Isabel Washington (1933–1945)
Hazel Scott (1945–1960)
Yvette Flores Diago (1960–1965)
Children Adam III
Adam IV
1 adopted
Education City University of New York, City College
Colgate University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
Shaw University (DDiv)
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972)[1] was a Baptist pastor and an American politician, who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He was the first person of African-American descent to be elected from New York to Congress.[2][3]

Re-elected for nearly three decades, Powell became a powerful national politician of the Democratic Party, and served as a national spokesman on civil rights and social issues. He also urged United States presidents to support emerging nations in Africa and Asia as they gained independence after colonialism.

In 1961, after 16 years in the House, Powell became chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, the most powerful position held by an African American in Congress. As chairman, he supported the passage of important social and civil rights legislation under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Following allegations of corruption, in 1967 Powell was excluded from his seat by Democratic Representatives-elect of the 90th United States Congress, but he was re-elected and regained the seat in the 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States in Powell v. McCormack. He lost his seat in 1970 to Charles Rangel and retired from electoral politics.

In April 1972, Powell became gravely ill and was flown to a Miami hospital from his home in Bimini. He died there on April 4, 1972, at the age of 63, from acute prostatitis, according to contemporary newspaper accounts. After his funeral at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, his son, Adam III, poured his ashes from a plane over the waters of Bimini.
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A1 Keep The Faith, Baby
A2 My Dear Colleagues
A3 Handwriting On The Wall
B1 Burn, Baby, Burn
B2 Death Of Any Man
B3 One Day

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