Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (29 November 1908 – 4 April 1972) adalah seorang politikus dan pastor Gereja Baptis Afrika Amerika yang mewakili wilayah Harlem, New York City dalam DPR dari 1945 sampai 1971. Ia adalah Afrika-Amerika pertama yang terpilih dalam Kongres dari New York
Bacaan tambahan sunting
- Capeci, Dominic J. "From Different Liberal Perspectives: Fiorello H. La Guardia, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Civil Rights in New York City, 1941-1943." Journal of Negro History (1977): 160–173. in JSTOR
- Hamilton, Charles V. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma (Atheneum, 1991).
- Haygood, Wil. King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993)
- Paris, Peter J. Black Leaders in Conflict: Joseph H. Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Pilgrim Press, 1978)
- Paterson, David Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity. New York, New York, 2020
- John C. Walker,The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones at Tammany 1920:1970, New York: State University New York Press, 1989.
Sumber primer sunting
- Powell Jr, Adam Clayton. Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell Jr (Kensington Books, 2002)
Pranala luar sunting
- Kongres Amerika Serikat. "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