After he was barred from taking his seat in the 90th Congress, Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell naturally went to the federal courts. By so doing, he raised a rare point of constitutional ...

Rep. Adam Clayton Powell's announcement that he plans to start introducing his "discrimination amendments" to welfare bills once again can bring no joy to advocates of civil rights or of liberal ...

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 ...