adam clayton powell jr. adam clayton powell jr. will inherit the church and this is a very interesting thing, churches and religion become -- nntd a number of religion become the family business so if i'm the son or daughter of a rabbi, i might become a rabbi, if i'm the son or daughter of a baptist minister, i might become a baptist minister, and i will learn even if i don't become that, i will learn politics at the foot of my father or grand father or whoever it was. adam clayton powell was this sort of social gospel. he had all kinds -- like father divine, running roughly contemporary, he has all kinds of social operations coming out of abyssinian baptist church, to serve the needs of people who are in desperate, who are looking for jobs, who are desperate, looking for a job, looking for the good life. but preachers have to service their congregation in ways at all kinds of levels. not just an abstract spirituality, but at the level of jobs. the church functions as a social service unit. this is his son.

adam clayton powell jr. baptist minister, married. in 1941, he was elected on the democratic ticket as new york city's first black city councilmember. after serving on the council for three years, powell in 1944 adopted a progressive civil rights platform. a successful campaign to serve in the house of representatives representing harlem. when powell took office in 1945, he became the first black congressman from new york state. having chicago roots, he is johnny-come-lately. in chicago we like black congressmen. i'm just saying. but there was nobody more flamboyant than adam. yes? what was his -- he looks very white. is he -- >> black people can look white, right? i was wondering, was his mom black -- >> his mom was very fair skinned. we have this very crazy role in -- crazy rule in the united states. one drop from sub sahara africa and you are black. the powells proudly claimed their blackness, even though adam was originally born with blonde hair and blue eyes. you look at his baby pictures, it is like, no. but he is black and his f

this is something everybody learned from adam clayton powell jr. r all of his interesting dalliances, he was a politician and served on very powerful committees to get legislation through. that is how you get legislation through. powell, bill gray all learned how to work the system and to navigate it. he is the first person -- he dies in 2013, too early. he became -- after leaving congress, he became the president of the united negro college fund. of course, he is at a very powerful time, being in the house committee on the budget, because he is working with george bush the first. he has to help shepherd him raising taxes through, because under the reagan administration the budget gets out of kilter and they have to raise taxes. bill gray is it. if you look at his background, you can see he has learned the art of politics, again through those organizations that he is trained up in. that is primarily in his case the baptist church. jesse lewis jackson sr. -- people still know who jesse jackson is, right? civil rights leader, famous chicago and -- chi

adam clayton powell jr. adam clayton powell jr. will inherit the church.his is a very interesting thing. churches and religion become -- in a number of religions become the family business. so if i'm the son or daughter of a rabbi, i might become a rabbi. if i'm the son or daughter of a baptist minister, i might become a baptist minister. and i will learn, even if i don't become that, i will learn politics at the foot of my father or grandfather or whoever it was. adam clayton powell was this sort of social gospel. he had all kinds of -- like father divine, running roughly contemporary, he has all kinds of social operations coming out of abisidian church looking for people who are desperate for the good life. but people have to service their congregation in ways at all kinds of levels. the church functions as a social service unit. this is his son. adam clayton powell jr. playboy, baptist minister, married to jazz and the stage actresses and in 19 41, he was elected on the democratic ticket as new york city's first black city council member. after serving

end up in the clayton powell and i wish to have a law because there's no there's never enough in the cupboard to claim with legitimacy you go in there when. you know. the government is just with true squeezed to squeeze the life out of it and he was underfunded in the first place and that's why they're called the problems they're in there now and what did those x. years like on his teach you had while it while you were inside. it was just tough and it was it was just tough he's not just fills you full of anxiety and worry and thinking and you just thinking constantly when i get when i'm again i just going to happen this is going to happen for me you know you just never know because sometimes you just you think you know you're never going to get you still you still think and i. love it when they're i've given up hope. we can understand. they have given up. levels of reach the highest in history but there were forty one thousand cases last year but recent figures from the prison reform trust showing that for every one thousand people serving in i.p.p. there were five hundred fifty inci

charles: we've seen something like this before that i know clayton powell, democrats in 1967 refused to seat him, they voted 307 to 116 to exclude him, he came up with the phrase, keep the faith. baby, he had to go to court over and cover, he was seated. for the american body to say, they are going to reject the voice of american public. if moore wins, understanding they know all allegations and heard from all sides. >> i am usually reliable voice for a free market conservatism, i look at election results upon us with a ambivalence right now. if roy moore is not there, it will be that much harder to accomplish these things, if he is there i think that g.o.p. 8 be distracted, media coming in at every question. charles: how is that different from now? >> difference, he will not be a candidate. charles: in term of media and disraction. >> rather than russia, russia it will be misconduct, and harassment, i do think that if he is there this level of distracted could almost immeasurable. charles: down one more senator could mean the end of the trump presidency with respect to getting it do

ways clergy behavior and he ended up writing a book on one of the people will talk about, adam clayton powell, jr., the political biography of an american dilemma. and he kept on studying. very few people have studied activist clergy with the exception of martin luther king jr., who gets a lot of ink like abraham lincoln, now. right? more ink is spilled on lincoln than anybody. so the black preacher in america, and he wanted to take this wide sweep in the 1970s to look at it. this book comes in the context of a book you already read by albert rabto. albert rabto. there are a group of books coming out shortly after the assassination of martin luther king. so all of these book, coming out after the assassination of king as a minister, king as a leader. there are a number of books coming out, and people were thinking about what did black history mean? particularly in the era of black power. and what did that mean in a revision of black history? of course -- if i can get to this work. so you can see that in the 1970s, along with your book by al rabito, there were tons of books coming out about sl