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About this Collection
The historical religion programs in this collection came from the archives, library shelves, and back rooms of many organizations. Faith groups represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker, Roman Catholic, Salvation Army, United Church of Christ, United Methodist, and others. The majority, 1,030 recordings, are from United Methodist national agencies, annual conferences, seminaries, and other sources.
This SoundTheology online archive is an independent service of Audio-Rescue.com, provided in conjunction with the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH). Many of these programs would have been lost forever if not saved in this project. The originating institutions have made the recordings available for public access to further private study, scholarship, and research. They retain the rights to the recordings.
This audio collection has been chosen for inclusion in the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force Sound Collection Database.
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Black Power, Student Revolution, and What it Means to Be African American
Speaker(s): Adam Clayton Powell
Description: The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972) was a Baptist pastor and an American politician. He represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1945-1971. He was the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York. Re-elected for nearly three decades, Powell became a powerful national politician of the Democratic Party, and served as a national spokesman on civil rights and social issues. In this speech at Brown University, he says the country must form a new establishment comprised of the underprivileged, the poor, and the Blacks. He excoriates J. Edgar Hoover for stating that the Black Panthers are the greatest threat to the country's political system.Length: 53:50
Recording Date: February 2, 1970
Recorded at: Brown University, Providence RI