Adam Clayton Powell

1865–1953 (age 88)

Biography

Adam Clayton Powell was born in 1865 and lived eighty-eight years, experiencing the full sweep of American history from the Reconstruction era through the mid-twentieth century. His long life allowed him to witness tremendous social, political, and cultural change.

Powell is remembered at Flushing Cemetery, where his memory rests among the community he knew and the generations that followed.

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