A group of Ethiopian merchants and free African-Americans established the first Abyssinian ... the church finally procured enough money under Pastor Adam Clayton Powell Sr. to build this ...

Into a Manhattan federal courtroom last week strode the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 51, pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, longtime (eight terms) U.S. Democratic Congressman and ...

If his fellow Congressmen were granted secret ballots, Harlem’s handsome Adam Clayton Powell ... congregation of the Rev. Dr. Powell’s Abyssinian Baptist Church. On hand to lead the obeisances ...

Johnson, founding pastor of Dare to Imagine Church in Philadelphia ... Based in Harlem, Abyssinian became a famous megachurch with the political rise of the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. perhaps ...