he's been in office since 1970 when he defeated adam clayton powell.e. he's up 47-34 over his closest challenger. there are three other challengers in the race. but his challenger has this thing going for him that he's hispanic. charlie rangel is half hispanic, which is a whole other story. is it even possible that charlie rangel is actually in jeopardy? then let's talk a little bit about what that means in the bigger picture with african-american politicians who really don't typically get much of a challenge. >> he is in jeopardy. he may win the race, the latest polls show him up by 13 points. but he's definitely in jeopardy. he could lose. you know, this is another case of where a district was redrawn. charlie has historically represented a majority african-american district. now it's majority latino. so it's one of the main reasons he's in jeopardy. another reason he's in jeopardy is just simply the fact he's been around so long. barack obama was 9 years old when charlie rangel went to congress. it was groups like the carpenters at the top of the ch

that, incidentally, for those of you who go back that far, is why he told adam clayton powell, you have to get out of town. powell went to bimini, never recovered from that, but -- and then moved to ucari, irish congressman from new york. johnson did not want black involvement in that legislation in any public way. carey came up with the idea of leasing books and things the bill passes the house, johnson says, call speaker mccormick, tell him not to send the bill here for another month because i want to sign it on hugh carey's birthday. he figured this out. and he had the bill come over. i don't think it was -- i don't think it was that king wasn't interested. you can answer that part of it, but i surely know that we were constantly worried that people would see these great society programs aimed at the poor on a race basis. >> and we didn't want that either. and i think the last gathering we had dr. king brought together 23 different minority groups, four, five different hispanic groups, poor whites from appalachia and the poor whites movement. and the idea of the great society campaig

that is why he told adam clayton powell, you have to get out of town. powell never recovered from that. johnson did not want black involvement in that legislation. they came up with the idea of leasing books and things. the bill passes the house. johnson says, call speaker maccormick. tell him not to send the bill here for another month. to sign it on carey's birthday. i don't think it is that king wasn't interested, but i surely know that we were constantly worried that people would see these great society programs on a race basis. >> we didn't want that either. i think the last gathering we togetherking brought 23 different minority groups, four or five different hi stantec -- efrin hispanic groups. the whole idea of the poor was, we knewaign segregation was about race but we didn't think voting rights was just a racial issue. i to this day think that president johnson knew poverty and the poor. he had taught kids who came to school hungry. those were the people he was concerned about. i think dr. king thought he was more concerned about the poor than

adam clayton powell, right?ey settled but guess what the agreement entails plex we will hire black women. you have got it already. we will hire black women because before you could only be janitors or elevator operators but they have to be light-skinned. that's the truth. see it's still true today. professor sammons professor green thank you so much and we want to thank our audience for coming out. thank you professor green, the head of the english department and clarence reynolds director of the center for black literature and all of our senior military personnel we thank you for coming out. and again this is a pivotal moment in our history. we are able to tell our story for real. and not leave anything out, the good, the bad the ugly. it's all in the book. so you need to go and get the book. teach this to your children. we are going to bring it to our teacher said that they have it as a resource. keep this story going. keep the story alive and make it possible for other stories to be told. thank you again for

seat in american politics, charlie rangel beat another legendary figure you may have heard of, adam clayton powellrom harlem as the second world war was ending. and at the time of his time in congress, powell was weakened by an ethics scandal and that opened the door for a young charlie rangle. he was part of the wave of the african-american politicians that represented minority districts and became a count countervailing force in washington. that new power base also practiced an old brand of politics. the politics of who you know and how you help them, so they help you. transactional, local, city politics. when the young barack obama came along as a senator, he followed a different playbook. he cast himself as the leader of a new kind of coalition politics, proudly diverse and drawing on the successes of civil rights movement, including organizing and church relations, but also promising to transcend some of the perceived limitations of constituency and transactional politics. obama was a fairly low-profile member of the congressional black caucus when he came to washington, where rangel is deeme

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