Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. - 1908–72, American politician and clergyman, b. New Haven, Conn. In 1937 he became pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, and he soon became known as a militant black leader. He was elected to the city council of New York in 1941, and was elected for the first time to the U.S. Congress in 1945. Although a Democrat, he campaigned for President Read More...

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Adam Clayton Powell: Portrait of a Marching Black
by James P. Haskins. 174 pgs.

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African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
by Richard Leeman. 452 pgs.

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Long-needed sourcebook assessing the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators.

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Mary Mcleod Bethune: (1875-1955), Educator, College President

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William Wells Brown: (c. 1814-1884) Abolitionist, Author

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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm: (1924- ), U.S. Congresswoman, U.S. Presidential Candidate, Educator

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Leroy Eldridge Cleaver: (1935- ), Civil Rights Activist, Reformer

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Anna Julia Cooper: (1858-1964), Educator, Feminist

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Alexander Crummell: (1819-1898), Minister

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Angela Yvonne Davis: (1944- ), Activist, Professor

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Father Divine: (c. 1879-1965), Religious Leader

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Frederick Douglass: (1818-1895), Abolitionist, Reformer

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: (1868-1963), Professor, Editor, Civil Rights Leader

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Marian Wright Edelman: (1939- ), Lawyer, Children's Advocate

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Louis Abdul Farrakhan: (1933- ), Religious Leader

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Lenora Fulani: (1950- ), Psychologist, Political Activist, U.S. Presidential Candidate

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Henry Highland Garnet: (1815-1882), Minister, Abolitionist, U.S. Ambassador

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Marcus Moziah Garvey: (1887-1940), Black Nationalist

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Francis James Grimke: (1850-1937), Minister

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: (1825-1911), Poet, Author, Abolitionist, Lecturer, Reform Leader

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Benjamin Lawson Hooks: (1925- ), Lawyer, Minister, Naacp Director

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Jesse Louis Jackson: (1941- ), Minister, Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Presidential Candidate

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Vernon Johns: (1892-1965), Minister

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Barbara Charline Jordan: (1936-1996), Lawyer, U.S. Representative, Professor

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: (1929-1968), Minister, Civil Rights Activist

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John Robert Lewis: (1940- ), Minister, Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Representative

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Louis E. Lomax: (1922-1970), Journalist, Author, Professor

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Thurgood Marshall: (1908-1993), Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice

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Robert Parris Moses: (1935- ), Civil Rights Activist, Social Activist, Professor

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: (1937- Lawyer, Professor, U.S. Representative

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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: (1908-1972), Minister, U.S. Representative

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Colin Luther Powell: (1937- ) Four-Star General

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Asa Philip Randolph: (1889-1979), Labor Leader, Civil Rights Activist

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Charles Lenox Remond: (1810-1873), Abolitionist, Reform Activist

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Maria W. Miller Stewart: (1803-1879), Essayist, Educator

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Mary Eliza Church Terrell: (1863-1954), Educator, Writer, Lecturer

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Sojourner Truth: (c. 1797-1883), Lecturer, Abolitionist, Women's Rights Speaker

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Booker T. Washington: (1856-1915), Educator, Community Leader

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Alyce Faye Wattleton: (1943- ), Nurse, Public Health Official, Planned Parenthood President

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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett: (1862-1931), Journalist, Civil Rights Activist, Antilynching Crusader

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William Whipper (c. 1804-1876), Businessman, Abolitionist, Reform Activist

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Lawrence Douglas Wilder: (1931- ), Lawyer, Politician, Governor

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Fannie Barrier Williams: (1855-1944), Writer, Lecturer, Community Activist

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Walter Edward Williams: (1936- ), Professor, Editorialist

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Malcolm X: (1925-1965), Religious Leader, Civil Rights Activist

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Andrew Jackson Young: (1932- ), Minister, Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Representative, U.S. Ambassador, Mayor

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'I Remember Adam', in Ebony
by Phyl Garland. 2 pgs.

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Black Leadership for Social Change
by Jacob U. Gordon, Samuel Cook Dubois. 242 pgs.

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This book presents a comprehensive overview of Black leadership in every aspect of American life, including movements for social justice, education, business, and politics. In the quest for human rights and social advancement, African-American leaders have emerged to lead the fight to overcome racial and economic barriers. This struggle has influenced the exercise of Black leadership in many other areas and the author uses an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the changes, continuities, and variety of African-American approaches to effective leadership. The book also suggests a theoretical framework for future research on the impact of Black leadership in America.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Black Leadership for Social Change

Part One: Theorizing Black Leadership

1: Defining Black Leadership

2: Concepts in Black Leadership

3: Toward a Theoretical Framework

Part Two: Foundations of Black Leadership

4: Sources of Black Leadership

5: The Beginnings of Black Leadership

6: Black Leadership in the Nineteenth Century: Before the War

7: Black Leadership in the Nineteenth Century: The Civil War and Its Aftermath

Part Three: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Black Leadership

8: Social Movements and Black Leadership

9: Black Leadership in Education

10: Black Leadership in Corporate America

11: Black Leadership in the Community

12: Black Leadership in the Global Arena

13: The Future of Black Leadership

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References

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Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960
by Brenda Gayle Plummer. 423 pgs.

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Brenda Gayle Plummer brings a new perspective to the study of twentieth-century American history with her analysis of black Americans' engagement with international issues, from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through the wave of African independence movements of the early 1960s. Plummer first examines how collective definitions of ethnic identity, race, and racism have influenced African American views on foreign affairs. She then probes specific developments in the international arena that galvanized the black community, including the rise of fascism, World War II, the emergence of human rights as a factor in international law, the Cold War, and the American civil rights movement, which had important foreign policy implications. However, she demonstrates that not all African Americans held the same views on particular issues and that a variety of considerations helped shape foreign affairs agendas within the black community just as in American society at large.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Race, Ethnicity, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Chapter 2: Dictatorship and Democracy

Chapter 3: World War II

Chapter 4: Peace without Justice

Chapter 5: Into the Cold War

Chapter 6: The Long Thaw

Chapter 7: A New Era

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

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Booknotes: Stories from American History ("The Life and Career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr." begins on p. 398)
by Brian Lamb. 540 pgs.

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From C-SPAN comes a browsable gift book and bedside companion for history lovers. The third in the series of the bestselling "Booknotes" books, this one recounts great events in American history as told by the writers and historians who have appeared on the "Booknotes" program. of color photos.

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Introduction

Revolution and Founding 1776-1815

A Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party

Declaring Independence

Creating the Constitution

The Federalist Papers

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

The American and French Revolutions

The Contested Election of 1800

The Hamiltonburr Duel

The Slave Ship Henrietta Marie

The Young Nation 1815-1850

The First Generation of Americans

Celebrating Fifty Years of Independence

Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Slavery and the Civil War 1850-1865

Buildup to the Civil War

Volunteer Soldiers

Women of the Slaveholding South

The Events of 1863

Civil War Correspondents

Ulysses S. Grant's Military Career

Differing Perspecives on Abraham Lincoln

The Leadership of Robert E. Lee

Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy

Rebuilding America and the Gilded Age 1865-1901

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Building of Central Park

The First Transcontinental Railroad

Grover Cleveland's Political Career

The Events of the 1890s

William Randolph Hearst and the Rise of Yellow Journalism

J. P. Morgan, National Banker

Progressive Era and Reaction 1901-1929

The Crusades of Ida B. Wells

The Celebrity of Helen Keller

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

The Scopes "Monkey" Trial

Al Smith and the 1928 Election

Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

Charles Lindbergh's Reluctant Public Life

The Roosevelt Dynasty

Depression and War 1929-1945

The Great Depression and World War II

The Early Days of Soviet Espionage

The Nurses Captured on Bataan

The Creation of the Withholding Tax

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

The World War II Generation

The Great Black Migration

Early Network News

Early Cold War 1945-1957

Five: Men Who Shaped the Postworld War II World

The Unlikely Kennedy-Nixon Friendship

Lucius D. Clay and Postwar Berlin

Truman Defeats Dewey

The Rise and Fall of Joseph Mccarthy

The New York Intelligentsia

Social Transformation 1957-1975

Orval Faubus and the Desegregation of Central High School

Lyndon Johnson and the 1960 Election

Robert Frost and the Kennedy Inauguration

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing

The Kennedy Years

The Warren Commission

The Rfk-Lbj Feud

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

Stories from 1964

John Marshall Harlan and the Warren Court

Getting to Know Richard M. Nixon

The Life and Career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr

Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Political Machine

Reporting from Vietnam

American Pows in Vietnam

The Culture Wars 1975-2000

The Rise of the Neoconservatives

The Forgotten Radio Scripts of Ronald Reagan

The Political Lore of Tip O'Neill

A Symposium on Race

The Reagangorbachev Summits

Reagan, Bush, and the Press

Planning the Persian Gulf War

Last Days of the First Bush White House

Dan Rostenkowski's Fall from Power

A Half-Century of Meet the Press

Modern Presidents' Mothers

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Complete List of C-Span Booknotes (1989-2001)

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Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WWII
by Nat Brandt. 278 pgs.

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By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 of them were overseas. Most were repeating the experience of their fathers in World War I - serving chiefly in labor battalions. Domestically, clashes between blacks and whites vying for the same jobs in boomtown defense-plant cities and the wretched treatment of northern black draftees in the South - where Jim Crow discrimination was prevalent - were all too common. In Harlem at War, Nat Brandt vividly recreates the desolation of black communities during World War II and examines the nation-wide conditions that led up to the Harlem riot of 1943. Wherever black troops were trained or stationed, Brandt explains, "rage surfaced frequently, was suppressed, but was not extinguished". Using eyewitness accounts, he describes the rage Harlemites felt, the discrimination and humiliation they shared with blacks across the country. The collective anger erupted one day in Harlem when a young black soldier was shot by a white police officer. The riot, in which six blacks were killed, seven hundred injured, and six arrested, became a turning point in America's race relations and a precursor to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.

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Illustrations

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Prologue

One E Pluribus Unum

Two Urban Migrants

Three Negro Harlem

Four "Nigger Heaven"

Five Dress Rehearsal

Six The Black Dilemma

Seven The Battle Before the War

Eight Prewar Maneuvers

Nine Priorities

Ten The Experience of War

Eleven A Conditional Surrender

Twelve Images

Thirteen Advances and Retreats

Fourteen Violence on the Home Front

Fifteen A State of Siege

Sixteen Leaders

Seventeen Conflicts

Eighteen The People's Voices

Nineteen The Harlem Riot

Twenty Recriminations

Twenty-One Victory Abroad

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

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Rhetoric of Black Revolution ("Can There Any Good Thing Come Out of Nazareth?" by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. begins on p. 154)
by Arthur L. Smith. 199 pgs.

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Rhetoric of Black Revolution

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Preface

1: Toward a Revolutionary Rhetoric

2: Strategies of the Revolutionists

3: Topics of Revolutionary Rhetoric

4: Nature of the Black Audience

5: Origins of Revolutionary Themes

6: Samples of Revolutionary Rhetoric

Slavery and the Irish

The Fourth of July

Can There Any Good Thing Come Out of Nazareth?

The Meaning of Black Power

Political Struggle in America

Free Huey

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Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders
by James Haskins. 320 pgs.

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Award-winning author James Haskins profiles the lives and accomplishments of more than 100 remarkable African Americans who have made their mark in politics and government. Written in an absorbing, informative style, these profiles cover the period from 1810 to the present. They describe the early years, education, and career highlights of more than 80 male and 20 female governmental leaders.

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Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
by Jeffrey D. Schultz, Kerry L. Haynie, Anne M. McCulloch, Andrew L. Aoki. 438 pgs.

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Foreward by Helen Thomas Preface African Americans Introduction: African Americans and American Politics by Christopher J. Malone African American Entries Appendix 1: Speeches and Documents Appendix 2: African-American Organizations Appendix 3: Tables Asian Americans Introduction: The Politics of Asian Americans by Don Tachiaki Nakanishi Asian Americans: Entries Appendix 1: Documents Appendix 2: Asian-American Organizations Tables Timeline Index

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Contributors for Volume 1

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Part 1: African Americans

Introduction African Americans and American Politics

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Introduction: The Politics of Asian Americans

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