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    Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Class of 1930

    Endnotes

    1. Lenworth Gunther, Flamin’ tongue: the rise of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 1908–1941, Thesis (Ph.D.) Columbia University, 1985, p. 103
    2. Various biographers and journalists have cited Powell Jr.’s “passing” as white in his first few weeks at Colgate; however, the circumstances surrounding how he was “exposed” are not in agreement and therefore problematize the question itself.
    3. Microfilm reel 51, Office of the Registrar records, A1023, Colgate University Special Collections and University Archives
    4. Gunther, p.15
    5. The congregation grew from approximately 1,600 members in 1908 to 7,000 by the end of Reverend Powell Sr.’s post in 1937.
    6. Wil Haygood, King of the Cats: the Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993, p.73; A Legacy of Leadership: Keeping Faith: A Historical Timeline of Abyssinian Baptist Church https://abyssinian.org/about-us/history/
    7. “Prominent Colored Preacher Tells Students That Negro and White Must Seek to Eliminate Friction,”Colgate Maroon, May 25, 1927
    8. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Adam by Adam: the Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishers, 2002, p.32; The University’s usual practice was to segregate living units. Crosby, Vaugh

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      Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.

      November 29, 1908 to April 4, 1972

       

      As a minister and congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was a prominent and controversial figure in the struggle for civil rights. Although Powell and Martin Luther King were initially supportive of one another’s work, King lost trust in Powell in 1960, after the congressman threatened to lie to the press about King’s friendship with his advisor Bayard Rustin. Despite their differences the two continued to publicly cooperate for several years; however, their relationship further eroded when Powell publicly renounced nonviolence in 1968.

      Born 29 November 1908, in New Haven, Connecticut, Powell grew up in New York City, where his father was the pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church. After graduating from Colgate University in 1930, Powell returned to Harlem, where he became an assistant pastor at Abyssinian while earning a master’s degree in religious education from Columbia University (1932). When his father retired in 1937, Powell became the new pastor of Abyssinian, ministering to a congregation of over 10,000 members. Powell used the pulpit to work for social change, organizing his community around issues related to discrimination in employment and government services

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      Adam Clayton Statesman Jr.

      American churchwoman and mp (1908–1972)

      Adam Clayton Solon Jr.

      In office
      January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1971
      Preceded byWalter A. Lynch
      Succeeded byCharles Rangel
      Constituency22nd sector (1945–1953)
      16th partition (1953–1963)
      18th section (1963–1971)
      In office
      January 1, 1942 – December 31, 1943
      Preceded byMulti-member district
      Succeeded byBenjamin J. Davis
      Born(1908-11-29)November 29, 1908
      New Haven, U.s.a., U.S.
      DiedApril 4, 1972(1972-04-04) (aged 63)
      Miami, Florida, U.S.
      Political partyDemocratic
      Other political
      affiliations      		American Labor
      Spouses

      Isabel Washington

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      (m. 1933; div. 1945)​

      Hazel Scott

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      (m. 1945; div. 1960)​

      Yvette Flores Diago

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      (m. 1960; sep. 1965)​
      ChildrenAdam III
      Adam IV
      1 adopted
      Parent
      EducationCity College have available New York
      Colgate University (BA)
      Columbia University (MA)
      Shaw University (DDiv)

      Adam Clayton Statesman Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972)[1] was an Indweller Baptist minister and mp who represent the Harl