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Unity Funeral Homes in New York City. These also became the largest Black funeral business in the U.S. A friend of the then Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Dr. Powell was appointed New York's first Black Athletic Commissioner. He was a member of the Reveille Club, the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Urban League and many other civic organizations, always at the forefront in the Black man's struggle for a place in the sun.

In 1937 he married Lena Dukes of Boston, Mass. 

He is survived by his widow and a sister, Gertrude Harmon of New York City, a nephew, Thomas E. Harmon, Jr. of Newport News, Va. and several nieces and nephews.

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