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6 giorni fa · Their Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, held at the Lincoln Memorial on May 17, 1957, featured key leaders including Adam Clayton Powell, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Roy Wilkins. Mahalia Jackson performed.
3 giorni fa · Seventh Avenue in Harlem has had an identity crisis for over 100 years. It was renamed Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard in 1974 but the old name lives on.
26 mag 2024 · Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard (7th Avenue) is shunted to the Harlem River Driveway via a ramp under West 153rd Street. For decades the ramp, on which traffic was light, was illuminated by a set of ancient, rusted iron posts with a unique design, employing SLECO 1950s-era “cuplights.”
30 mag 2024 · Adam Clayton Powell, congressman from Harlem and an important Black figure in mainstream politics, learned that Rustin was in the planning stages of boycotting the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
31 mag 2024 · Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Eta: First Black Representative from New York (Harlem); Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee; first African American Chairman of a major committee in the U.S. House of Representatives; early civil rights and racial equality legislation advocate; long-time pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church ...
17 mag 2024 · In his book, Crowley notes that the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr. crusaded against homosexuality during his 1908-1936 leadership of New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church — one of the most prominent Black churches in the country.
2 giorni fa · In the crime drama series Godfather of Harlem (2019), he portrayed civil rights champion Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Esposito voiced the narrator in the Netflix series Dear White People (2017–21) and hosted the documentary series The Broken and the Bad (2020), which focused on real-life stories related to the Breaking Bad universe.
