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[[image - black and white photograph of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., with his wife and son]]

THE NEW YORK AGE, NOVEMBER 15, 1941

POWELL WINS COUNCIL SEAT

The long-cherished dream of Negroes electing a member to the City Council was realized Tuesday night with the election of the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Republican-endorsed American Labor-City Fusion candidate. The new council will contain 26 members.

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THE NEW YORK AGE, AUGUST 5, 1944

ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BECOMES FIRST CONGRESSMAN

As the New York Age went to press at 3 a.m. Wednesday, votes were still being counted in Harlem's polling places as a result of the most bitter primary fights held

NEW YORK POSt, MARCH 27, 1935

POWELL SAYS MEN CAN'T GET JOBS

"White folks in the lead." That has been the answer for years when one Negro queried a fellow Negro in Harlem: "How's things going in town?" This native jest indicated the feelings of the majority of Harlemites regarding their position in New York. An increasingly impenetrable wall has sprung up around Harlem, especially during the last five years. It is a wall of subtle prejudices, veiled discrimination and faintly concealed antagonism: a

NEW YORK POST, MARCH 28, 1935

POWELL SAYS RENT TOO HIGH

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