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Adam Clayton Powell

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Originally released in 1989.
Special features: Filmmaker interview.
Narrator, Julian Bond.
A look at the most influential and flamboyant civil rights leader in America from the 1930s through the 1950s. From his emergence as a pastor of Harlem's Albyssinian Baptist Church, to his riotous political climb and eventual ruin. He had an illustrious but controversial career. He had multiple marriages, taunted the white establishment, his desegregation of Congress, and his shameful smearing of Martin Luther King Jr.
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PUBLISHED
[New York, NY] : Docurama, [2009]
Year Published: 2009
Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 54 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1422929450
9781422929452

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kilberg, Richard.
Bond, Julian, 1940-
Docurama (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Powell, Adam Clayton, -- 1908-1972.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Clergy -- New York -- Biography.
Biographical videos.