Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 479

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL'S COPY OF THE CONGRESSIONAL RULEBOOK (POLITICS.) Deschler, Lewis. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives. 733 pages. Thick 8vo, original limp black morocco, upper cover and title page detached, with "Adam C. Powell Jr." in gilt on the upper cover. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1947

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972), the powerful politician and pastor that represented New York's Harlem in the House of Representatives (1945-71) was the first person of African-American descent elected to Congress from New York. In 1961, after sixteen years in the House, he became chairman of the Education and Labor Committee. As Chairman, he supported the passage of important social legislation, but was removed from his seat by Democratic Representatives-elect of the 90th Congress following allegations of corruption. He fought the charges and won, but was eventually replaced by Charles Rangel in 1970.