VOA NEWS: KING OF CATS RECOUNTS LIFE OF ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR.

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | February 28, 2006 | Copyright

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By Nancy Beardsley

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was one of America's most influential black leaders in the 1950s and early 60s, a charismatic minister and powerful Congressman representing New York's predominantly black Harlem district. Charges of financial impropriety eventually led to his political downfall, and in recent decades he has faded from public memory. But Washington Post writer Wil Haygood takes another look at the crusading activist in King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Originally published in 1993. ...

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