Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He was the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York, as well as the first from any state in the Northeast. Re-elected for nearly three decades, Powell became a powerful national politician of the Democratic Party, and served as a national spokesman on civil rights and social issues. He also urged United States presidents to support emerging nations in Africa and Asia as they gained independence after colonialism.
In 1961, after 16 years in the House, Powell became chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, the most powerful position held by an African American in Congress to that date. As chairman, he supported the passage of important social and civil rights legislation under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Following allegations of corruption, in 1967 Powell was excluded from his seat by Democratic Representatives-elect of the 90th United States Congress, but he was re-elected and regained the seat in the 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States in Powell v. McCormack. He lost his seat in 1970 to Charles Rangel and retired from electoral politics.
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Date: 29 November 1908
AT the exhibition of water colors and pastels at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts is a group of some forty-five or forty-six drawings by the sculptor Rodin, some of them in black and white, some of them touched with color. The drawings are rude in form, showing not the slightest interest in the development of inner modeling or of any particular expression or sentiment.
Date: 29 November 1908
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
LONDON, Nov. 28. -- Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., arrived in London Monday from Paris with their two children, to be here until next Saturday and then sail on the Caronia to spend Christmas at home.
Date: 29 November 1908
Special to The New York Times
Date: 29 November 1908
By Percival Pollard. Special Correspondence the New York Times
Percival Pollard
LONDON, Nov. 20. -- Your pursuit of happiness -- whether that means for you money or merely the satisfying of an idle curiosity -- has doubtless brought you at one time or another into one of those places where men sit eternally before huge blackboards on which white figures are constantly being written and erased.
Date: 29 November 1908
BELGRADE, Nov. 28. -- The Servian official news agency has circulated an extraordinary story from Cettinje, Montenegro, setting forth the panic and flight of a body of troops Austrian stationed near the Montenegrin frontier.
Date: 29 November 1908
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. -- Victory is attending the campaign of the insurgents in Haiti, according to advices received to-day at the State Department, and the rebel arm after defeating the Government troops, is closing in on the capital. The situation is regarded as critical, and this Government is expectant of important news within the next twenty-four hours.
Date: 29 November 1908
Trading in yesterday's short session of the stock market departed in no essential feature from that of Friday save in the fact that the movement of prices while generally toward a higher level was characterized by greater irregularity. Public participation was at a standstill, and in the absence of any news of direct bearing upon securities the course of the market was dictated by the shifting of speculative positions.
Date: 30 November 1908
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES