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Adam Clayton Powell

Call Number

  • DVD 921 P881A (CEN)

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Performers

Narrator, Julian Bond.

Publication Information

[New York, NY] : Docurama : Distributed by New Video, [2009]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 54 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A look at the most influential and flamboyant civil rights leader in America from the 1930s through the 1950s. From his emergence as a pastor of Harlem's Albyssinian Baptist Church, to his riotous political climb and eventual ruin, he had an illustrious but controversial career.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released in 1989.

Special features: Filmmaker interview.

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