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Adam Clayton Powell
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr (1908-1972) was an African-American civil rights leader, pastor, and politician. Powell was born in New Haven, Connecticut and moved to Harlem, New York in 1921. From 1924 until his death in 1972, he served as the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. As an activist, Powell fought for improved education, jobs, and housing for African Americans, and organized boycotts, strikes and other forms of civil disobedience. He was elected to the New York City Council in 1941 and to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York in 1945, becoming the first African American from the northeast to serve in Congress. Powell was a noted leader during the civil rights movement, and worked to further social justice, economic equality, and civil rights in the U.S. He passed away in 1972 after a long battle with cancer. Powell's legacy continues through the many institutions, programs and organizations he helped to establish while in office.
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