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Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is the most powerful and probably the most popular political figure in Harlem. And he keeps that status even though he has been on the lam from Harlem, and New York State, for nearly two years...
Once upon a time in 1960, New York Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 56, called a Harlem housewife named Esther James a "bagwoman," meaning, in Harlem patois, that she was a graft collector for the police department. Mrs. James, declaring her innocence, won a $46,500 libel judgment against him, but thanks to his intricate legal dodges, it may be a long time before she collects. Nonetheless, Mrs. James's bag, in theory at least, should be comfortably full. Last week the State Supreme Court in Manhattan awarded her an extra $163,500, as a result of Adam...
...least half an hour of today's hearing consisted of debate over the voter registration records. The two MFDP attorneys insisted that the federal statute entitled them to subpoena and examine the records. Clayton's three attorneys maintained that they need not produce the records, and that they would not produce them simply "to save time...
During the two-hour lunchbreak, the MFDP attorneys drove to the registrar's office. They arrived at 11:15 a.m., only to find that Mr. Clayton had closed his office for the day and would admit...
Finally, at the close of today's proceedings, Clayton's lawyers announced that the records would be available for inspection at 8 p.m. today...