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...income tax time rolls round again, I am sure that most Americans share my joy in the knowledge that we are all members of the N.A.A.A.C.P.-the National Association for the Advancement of Adam Clayton Powell...
WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 10-The House refused to seat Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell today...
...Democratic Party caucuses today in Congress, Adam Clayton Powell goes on trial for his political life. But unfortunately, in the absence of an established code of Congressional conduct, there is nothing that the Democratic Party or the House can do to Powell that will be effective and appropriate to his offenses...
This story, making the rounds of Harlem, illustrates the Negro's attitude toward the growing controversy over Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (TIME, Dec. 30). Powell may be an absentee Congressman, a fugitive from a jail sentence and any number of other reprehensible things-but he is regarded as a Negro who has made it in a white man's world. That makes all the difference. Powell's personal problems, which seem to mount day by day, last week threatened to become an unfortunate facet of the civil rights movement...
Jefferson P. Rogers, charged flatly: "The only reason Adam Clayton Powell draws this special kind of attention is that he is a Negro and wields power like a white man wields power...