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Before Barack Obama, Colin Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., there was Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -- the most celebrated and controversial black politician of his generation. An astute businessman known as "Mr. Civil Rights," he represented Harlem for twenty-four years in the House of Representatives. He was a man…
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Journalist Wil Haygood’s 1993 biography of U.S. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell is an engaging portrayal of perhaps the most well-known Black American who ever served in the U.S. Congress.
Haygood’s writing is vivid and moving. He captures the flamboyant and publicity-seeking congressman on Capitol Hill, challenging the segregationist members of his party, at home in Harlem, touring in his fancy sports cars, in his pulpit at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, preaching about civil rights and racism, and traveling to Paris and other foreign destinations, often accompanied by attractive young women staffers.
From his arrival in Congress in 1945 until the…
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