Adam Clayton Jr. Powell (1865-1953)

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

Adam Clayton Powell was an American pastor who developed the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, as the largest Protestant congregation in the country, with 10,000 members. He was an African American community activist, author, and the father of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Born into poverty in southwestern Virginia, Powell worked to put himself through school and Wayland Seminary, where he was ordained in 1892.

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