Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972

Authoritative Name:
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972
Biography:
"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."--Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Associated Subjects:
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972
Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

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Right to Work laws, correspondence, 1965-1966

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E.T., 1921-1996
Weltner, Charles Longstreet
Mackay, James A. (James Armstrong), 1919-2004
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002
National Council for Industrial Peace
National Right to Work Committee (U.S.)
Date of Original:
1965
1966
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

CORE--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party - Memoranda and reports, 1964-1966 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reels 2-3, Segment 37)

Creator:
Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District
Date of Original:
1964/1966
Collection:
Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:
Wisconsin Historical Society

Goodman--National clippings and loose clippings (Carolyn Goodman papers, 1964-2000; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 833, Reel 1b)

Creator:
Goodman, Carolyn
Date of Original:
1964/1967
Collection:
Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:
Wisconsin Historical Society

Goodman--New York newspaper clippings (Carolyn Goodman papers, 1964-2000; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 833, Reel 1a)

Creator:
Goodman, Carolyn
Date of Original:
1964/1967
Collection:
Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:
Wisconsin Historical Society

Hamer--Fannie Lou Hamer papers, 1964 - 1967 (Archives Main Stacks, SC 644)

Creator:
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Date of Original:
1964/1981
Collection:
Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:
Wisconsin Historical Society

King--January 1964 WATS Line calls (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Archives Main Stacks, Z: Accessions M82-445, Box 1, Folder 2)

Creator:
King, Mary E., 1940-
Date of Original:
1964-01
Collection:
Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:
Wisconsin Historical Society

Lipsky--SNCC, Mississippi, New Jersey (Michael Lipsky and David J. Olson Papers, 1935-1981; Z: Accessions, M96-024, Box 1, Folder 6)

Creator:
Lipsky, Michael
Date of Original:
1963/1964
Collection:
Freedom Summer Digital Collection
Contributing Institution:
Wisconsin Historical Society
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Oral history interview with Jack Flynt, 1998 Apr. 22

Creator:
Flynt, John James, 1914-2007
Date of Original:
1998-04-22
Collection:
Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program
Contributing Institution:
University of West Georgia. Special Collections

Oral history interview with Phil Landrum, 1988 July 25-26

Creator:
Landrum, Phil M.
Date of Original:
1988-07-25/1988-07-26
Collection:
Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program
Contributing Institution:
University of West Georgia. Special Collections

Southern school news

Creator:
Southern Education Reporting Service
Date of Original:
1957-05-01
Collection:
Southern school news
Contributing Institution:
University of Georgia. Libraries

Southern school news

Creator:
Southern Education Reporting Service
Date of Original:
1957-06-01
Collection:
Southern school news
Contributing Institution:
University of Georgia. Libraries

Southern school news

Creator:
Southern Education Reporting Service
Date of Original:
1962-03-01
Collection:
Southern school news
Contributing Institution:
University of Georgia. Libraries

POWELL ON TREATMENT OF HIM BECAUSE OF HIS COLOR WHEN WHITE POLITICIANS WERE NOT TOUCHED

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1958-05-16
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of African American civil rights leaders including congressman Adam Clayton Powell and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1957 May 17

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1957-05-17
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Malcolm X condemning the federal government for not protecting African commenting on violence in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 May 16

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1963-05-16
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

WSB-TV newsfilm clip of demonstrators protesting against de facto school segregation and of African American leaders Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell speaking in favor of the school boycott in New York City, New York, 1964 March 16

Creator:
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:
1964-03-16
Collection:
WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

WSFA audiovisual item D125.0007

Date of Original:
1969-01/1969-10
Collection:
WSFA Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History