Politician (29-Nov-1908 — 4-Apr-1972)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Emmett Coleman. The Rise and Fall and...? of Adam Clayton Powell. New York: Bee-Line Books. 1967. 169pp.

P. Allan Dionisopaulas. Rebellion, Racism, and Representation: The Adam Clayton Powell Case and Its Antecedents. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press. 1970. 175pp.

Charles V. Hamilton. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma. New York: Atheneum Books. 1991. 545pp.

James S. Haskins. Adam Clayton Powell: Portrait of a Marching Black. Africa Research & Publications. 1992. 166pp.

Wil Haygood. King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1993. 476pp.

Neil Hickey; Ed Edwin. Adam Clayton Powell and the Politics of Race. New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation. 1965. 308pp.

Claude Lewis. Adam Clayton Powell: The Inside Story on the Controversial Congressman from Harlem. Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books/Fawcett. 1963. 127pp. By a Newsweek reporter.

Adam Clayton Powell. Adam By Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.. New York: Dial Press. 1971. 260pp.

Kent M. Weeks. Adam Clayton Powell and the Supreme Court. New York: Dunellen. 1971. 311pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Congressional Biography [link]

7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.901)

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.569)

9. Webster's American Biographies (p.841)

10. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.583)

11. 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia (pp.246-49)

12. Biographical Dictionary of the Left (vol.2, pp.517-22)

13. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.182)

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