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...York's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is a much criticized man, but he has a handy retort to any charge leveled against him: the critic, says Powell, is obviously prejudiced against Negroes...
Last week the all-white jury deliberated 3½hours, turned in a judgment requiring Powell to pay Mrs. James $211,500. "This is the happiest day of my life," cried Mrs. James. "The king is dead. Adam Clayton Powell is dead. Now he will just have to keep his big mouth shut." Powell, though hardly dead, was indeed uncommonly silent. And no wonder: he could hardly claim that in deciding against him the jury had shown prejudice against Negroes...
Harlem has the highest juvenile delinquency rate in the country; Harlem also has Rep. Adam Clayton Powell...
Powell set out as if he wanted to insure that his project would be criticized. He served as one of the incorporators of the project's parent corporation, Associated Community Teams, Inc (ACT). He rented office space in the Adam Clayton Powell Community Center to ACT at $24,000 a year. When the first head of the Corps proved unable to get the project underway, Powell turned it over to Livingstone Wingate, his former administrative assistant. Wingate became director of ACT at a $16,000 a year salary...
...case the future of the domestic Peace Corps in Harlem does not look bright. In the year of the $99 million budget, Congress is increasingly unwilling to provide funds for welfare projects, and the unwillingness is increased when the funds are ticketed for Adam Clayton Powell's district. The President's Committee on Youth will probably be willing to back the Corps as long as the Committee itself has funds, but shortly the Committee will have to go to Congress for more money. "When that happens I think Congress will take a long, hard look at the possibility of ending...