Adam Clayton Powell, JR.
American politician Adam Clayton Powell, Junior, a representative of United States from New York from 1945 to 1967 and from 1969 to 1971, outspokenly advocated civil rights.
This pastor represented Harlem, city of New York, in the House. People elected this powerful national politician, the first person from his state of African descent, to Congress.
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“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality”
Adam Clayton Powell, JR.