and neither is adam clayton powell. and there are standards to which you must be held and against which you must be judged. white, black, brown, yellow, there are standards, and you have to rice to those standards, meet them or exceed them. but if -- but you don't have separate standards for this kind of behavior. i don't like the idea that people would conclude that marion berry reflects the values, hopes and aspirations of the african-american community of this city. we are far too diversified a population to say anything like that or to suggest anything like that. there are things that are right and wrong, good and bad, and we ought to hold ourselves to those. >> we didn't talk much about harry thomas, who was a member of the council and what happened to him. >> he was a champion of young people, youth. he oversaw the recreation department as a member of the council. he came from a family of civic leaders. s father was a member of the council. owe took his fare's seat. his more was a very good ferble -- mother was a

his best friend was the future congressman, adam clayton powell junior. he ran the streets with wc handy junior. he wrote of watching mcgarvey parades from the roof of an abyssinian baptist church in early 1920s. he would eventually become an all city track star and one of the first black students at the university am aware he also began to learn the journalistic craft. of course, during the 1920s, harlem was in a renaissance in the heart of the jazz age. ottley was obsessed with musical theater. with the plays of broadway and the jazz music. in the 1930s, the years of the great depression, i think these were formative years for him. he came back from school to help his family. he got a job in the city of new york's welfare department. and witnessed first-hand the immense suffering of his neighbors. and he also started writing. he started doing music and theater reviews for the amsterdam news in harlem and he parlayed that eventually into a regular column that covered all aspects of harlem life, including, and especially, politics. harlem during those yea

together with of the members that were there under my predecessor, the late and they break adam clayton powellgressional black caucus. we did not get together just because we were men and women of color. we get together because we recognize that we were coming together with a vision of strength, our votes that something. we wanted to tell everybody, no matter where they left that whether or not they had a member of color it did not matter because we took the responsibility of this big for them wherever there were. can you imagine it to the years the 13 crew of 26 iraq another ten years, 42. forty-three. now the congressional black caucus is the largest carcass that we have in the house of representatives. >> among our members of. >> with all of the struggles that we suffered in the civil rights movement, all of them marching and praying and dying that people had done for us, please, don't any of the walkaway not realizing that this struggle continues, and the same type of mentality that would rush to prevent us from voting yesterday exists today with the same motivation to stop us from voting.