Adam Clayton Powell #1168

Caption from poster__            “ Keep the Faith, Baby!”        Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Representative from New York; born in  New Haven, Conn., November 29, 1908; attended the public schools  of New York City; graduated from Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., 1930; graduated from Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1932;  graduated from Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., 1934; ordained minister;  member of the New York, N.Y., city council, 1941; newspaper publisher and editor; journalist; instructor, Columbia University Extension School, 1932-1940; cofounder of the National Negro Congress; member of the  New York state, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration,1942- 1944; member of the Manhattan Civilian Defense 1942-1945; elected as  a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses