Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nurses and of medical services, let us be sure that people understand that it is because this sector of the economy has been starved for years. And let us do something about that. Let us fight the backlash not by watching and on occasion deploring the onslaught on Adam Clayton Powell but by pressing for the next steps against bigotry and misunderstanding and segregated communities and schools and restricted housing. Let us meet the problems of administration in the poverty program by training administrators--and especially by pressing for the money it requires. And let us, for God's sake...
With their own vehicle for racial advancement, wealthy Negroes will be able to demonstrate, however belatedly, that the road to equality lies through due process of law-not, as Adam Clayton Powell would have it, through defiance...
...gold lining in Adam Powell's recently beclouded life has been the prospect of vast profits from Keep the Faith, Baby, his platter of preachy patter. In January, Powell bragged that the record would sell more than a million copies, earning him $280,000 in royalties. But-relative to Powell's boast-the record has bombed. At most, 103,000 have been sold, and sales now are down nearly to nil. At the Record Shack on Harlem's 125th Street, Manager Buddy Franklin said that even at $1.10 off the list price of $4.79, Faith has become...
...takes a fairly cynical view of politicians, more or less expecting them to be up to their campaign buttons in patronage and various forms of skulduggery. But at the same time, he also expects (or wants) them to be above the more blatant forms of corruption. That is why Adam Clayton Powell's flamboyant peccadilloes, Senator Thomas Dodd's shifty manipulations of "campaign funds" and the late Senator Robert Kerr's wheeling and dealing with Bobby Baker have agitated two congressional committees and large sections of public opinion about the ethics of Capitol Hill. The central question...
Rustin also commented on the recent exclusion of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.) from his seat in Congress. "Although I questioned his behavior, I must condemn the emotional and unconstitutional behavior of congress in the matter," he said. Whether Congress excluded Powell from racist motives is immaterial, Rustin said. What matters is that Negroes interpret it as racism, he explained...