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“Keep the Faith, Baby!” Record

Record jacket showing Adam Clayton Powell Jr. squinting, wearing a blue jacket, and pointing in front of a body of water with black and blue text reading, “‘Keep the Faith, Baby!’ Adam Clayton Powell’s Message To The World. Dateline: January 1967, An Exclusive Live Recording”/tiles/collection/7/7308.xml
Record jacket showing Adam Clayton Powell Jr. squinting, wearing a blue jacket, and pointing in front of a body of water with black and blue text reading, “‘Keep the Faith, Baby!’ Adam Clayton Powell’s Message To The World. Dateline: January 1967, An Exclusive Live Recording”
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Date

1967

Publisher

Jubilee Records

Dimensions

12 3/8 x 12 3/8 x 1/8 in. (31.4 x 31.4 x 0.3 cm)

Accession Number

2007.281.000a

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

In January 1967 legendary civil rights leader and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., issued this recording as a retort to his House colleagues, who stripped him of his committee chairmanship that month following a series of legal problems. The former preacher used call-and-response oratory and a full choir to take jibes at the House and exhort African-American voters to guard their political and economic freedom closely: “The white man respects only two things, your vote and your dollar.”

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