Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

1010 Winds newsman Glenn Shuck setting it off for us on this Monday.

Kathy Hochul taking to the subway stops here, the Upper West Side, West 116th, and then 135th, and Adam Clayton Powell, where I am here, trying to encourage those who didn't use the early voting process to make sure they show up tomorrow.

I am so encouraged by the number of people, almost historic number, 66% more than turned out last time I ran in the city alone and all over the state of New York.

So there's an energy out there.

The 1969 case of Powell v. McCormick ruled that the House cannot exclude an elected candidate from being sworn in if they otherwise meet the constitutional requirements of age, residency, and U.S. citizenship.

It comes after Adam Clayton Powell Jr., then a senior lawmaker representing New York as a Democrat, was refused his oath of office by the House Speaker after winning again in 1966.

Powell Jr. had been embroiled in multiple financial scandals at the time.

The House then adopted a resolution barring him from taking his seat, a decision that was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court.

It looks like uncle Sam.

Well, you know, honestly, facially, doesn't he kind of, and I wondered if it was modeled after Adam Clayton Powell? Oh, I bet you're right.

I think you might be right.

And maybe, you know, I don't know if maybe that was the intent.

And that was, that was it.

Yeah.

But, but, but if, if, if, if John feelings based his character on Adam Clayton Powell, did you base general election on any, is that your mom or your wife or your sister or somebody,

you know, what you did and just kind of, you know, modified it in what, you know, what I thought it would, it

And so there's a lot of steps before that, but I think at the very least, you probably have at minimal that stunting that goes on on January 3rd, based on that Supreme Court case from the 1960s, Powell versus McCormick.

John McCormick was the Speaker of the House and Adam Clayton Powell was a long standing congressman from New York.

uh... that they decided not to see them because he faced a criminal investigation and the supreme court said you pretty much have to see him because uh...

he is a uh... you know you cannot do an election your disenfranchised people and so he was elected so you gotta see them

Initiated in 1939 to expand birth control services among Black communities in the American South.

Sanger worked with Black leaders of the time, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in a movement to greater access to reproductive health care.

The project was intended to address barriers to care and the distrust of the medical system that had historically discriminated against Black patients.

However, the project was also conducted during a time when segregation, racism, and coercive population control policies were active.

You can amend things all you want.

And Rayburn said, you're insane, right? I've got Adam Clayton Powell, African-American from Harlem in my party.

And I've got these virulent racist Southerners in my party.

I put them in a room together.

He also was a leader of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, which a century and a half later became known for a tragedy related to a massacre at a Bible study.

But he was followed by Democrats, including New York Pastor Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who was in Congress in the 40s, and then Floyd Flake, who served in the 80s.

And there was also Representative John Lewis, who was a Baptist minister from Georgia.

And as Jack has mentioned, we've now had Emanuel Cleaver here.