[New York, NY] : Docurama, [2009]
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• DVD Region 1.
• Title from container.
• Narrator, Julian Bond.
• Originally released in 1989.
• 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. He had multiple marriages, taunted the white establishment, his desegregation of Congress, and his shameful smearing of Martin Luther King Jr.

Subjects:

• Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972.
• African American civil rights workers — Biography.
• Politicians — United States — Biography.
• Clergy — New York (State) — New York — Biography.
• Documentary films.

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