Bronx Boy (Chapter Fourteen): It’s on With the Show!

Photo of NYC Blackout circa 1960s - The City That Never Sleeps

H ow did Congressman and Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr. become so influential beyond his home district and with its myriad constituents? For one, Powell was an ordained Baptist minister at a time when Baptist ministers were, proverbially, a dime a dozen. Additionally, he inherited the "gift of gab" and his world-renowned oratory skills from his parents, who instilled in him the teachings and wisdom of the ...