 Description: Adam Clayton Powell, the first African-American to be elected from New York to Congress, speaks on the decline and fall of the white power structure in the United States. Powell discusses de facto segregation, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Birmingham riot of 1963, the military draft, and political representation. This talk is from the Faunce House Board of Governors lecture series at Brown University. Note: There is a break in the content at 1:33:43 where it appears the audiotape was changed.
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