Powell to RPW Letter 10/29/64 Searchable Text

(CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES LETTERHEAD – LISTING MAJORITY AND MINORITY MEMBERS)

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

_____________

Committee on Education and Labor

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Congress of the United States

Washington, D.C.

429 CANNON HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

EXTENSION 4527

                                                          October 29, 1964

Dear Mr. Warren:

I am enclosing for your use a rewrite on a chapter for your Anthology, on that section dealing with my career.

I thank you for the opportunity of seeing this material and I trust you will find everything in order.

With every good wish.

                                                          Very truly yours,

                                                          (handwritten signature)

                                                          ADAM C. POWELL

                                                          Chairman

Mr. Robert Penn Warren

West Wardsboro, Vermont.

Attachment.

ACP/dfb

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no one can doubt that Adam Clayton Powell is a real spokesman for the Negro, by and with their own choice; over a span of 30 years, he is perhaps their greatest spokesman.

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All information, quotations and conclusions in this chapter are drawn from a forthcoming autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, with the author’s permission.

Permission granted for use in WHO SPEAKS FOR THE NEGRO, by Robert Pen (Penn) Warren.

Signed:  ADAM CLAYTON POWELL  (handwritten signature)

                 Adam Clayton Powell

                   Per ____________Young

Date:

                   Approved:  10/10/64

                   at the __________ Baptist Church

                   132 W. 138^th St.

                    New York, N.Y.

(handwritten notes in italics)