Blacks in Congress and Big-City Politics from Four Perspectives, Writers Tell of African-Americans' Struggles to Gain and Keep a Place in the American Power Structure

Luix Overbea. Luix Overbea, formerly a. Monitor writer and the executive producer and co-host of the `Inner City Beat' Tv program on The Monitor Channel, is now a freelance writer., The Christian Science Monitor

BEFORE the 1940s, African-Americans mumbled and grumbled about the way they were treated in the United States. They asked for first-class citizenship, but with more timidity than bravado.

Then in 1942, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. thundered onto the scene, first as a street-smart pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist church, later as the first African-American elected to the New York City Council. Before he could complete a full term on the council, he was elected to Congress in a newly created district that made him New York's first black congressman.

Thus the saga for King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., by Wil Haygood (Houghton …

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Publication information: Article title: Blacks in Congress and Big-City Politics from Four Perspectives, Writers Tell of African-Americans' Struggles to Gain and Keep a Place in the American Power Structure. Contributors: Luix Overbea. Luix Overbea, formerly a. Monitor writer and the executive producer and co-host of the `Inner City Beat' Tv program on The Monitor Channel, is now a freelance writer. - Author. Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor. Publication date: February 19, 1993. Page number: 14. © 2009 The Christian Science Publishing Society. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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