Birth Name:

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Male

Birth Date:

Sun, Nov 29, 1908

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Age:

115

Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

7°

Sag

6'

About Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He was the first African-American to be elected to Congress from New York, as well as the first from any state in the Northeast. Re-elected for nearly three decades, Powell became a powerful national politician of the Democratic Party, and served as a national spokesman on civil rights and social issues. He also urged United States presidents to support emerging nations in Africa and Asia as they gained independence after colonialism.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• United States Congress. "Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (id: P000477)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• United States House of Representatives biography of Powell

• Booknotes interview with Charles Hamilton on Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma, January 5, 1992.

• Speech by Adam Clayton Powell given on April 10, 1969. Audio recording, from The University of Alabama's Emphasis Symposium on Contemporary Issues

• Rushing, Lawrence, "The Racial Identity of Adam Clayton Powell Jr: A Case Study in Racial Ambivalence and Redefinition", Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, January 1, 2010

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: Sun 7 Sagittarius, Moon 21 Aquarius, Mercury 23 Scorpio, Venus 1 Scorpio, Mars 2 Scorpio, Jupiter 13 Virgo, Saturn 3 Aries, Uranus 14 Capricorn, Neptune 16 Cancer, Pluto 25 Gemini, Venus Conjunct Mars, Sun Trine Saturn, Mercury Quincunx Pluto, Venus Quincunx Saturn, Mars Quincunx Saturn, Jupiter Trine Uranus, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Uranus Opposition Neptune

Categories related to Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: Activists from New York (state), Columbia University alumni, 20th-century American politicians, American people of German descent, People from Harlem, Colgate University alumni, Connecticut, African-American members of the United States House of Representatives, Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives, Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state), New York (state) Democrats, November 29 births, New York City Council members, African-American people in New York (state) politics, 20th-century Baptists, 1972 deaths, Politicians from New Haven, American emigrants to the Bahamas, 20th-century African-American activists, 1908 births, Baptists from New York (state), Activists from Connecticut, Townsend Harris High School alumni, Doctors of Divinity, People from Bimini, Powell family of New York

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