Powell, Adam Clayton

Note on original folder: "1967 Jan.-July." Newswire text concerning a vote to censure Powell, dated 3-2-1967 (1 leaf with attached ms. cover note); press release dated 2-23-1967 concerning a statement by the National Urban League in defense of Powell (1 leaf); mimeographed announcement of "Adam Powell Week" (Jan. 4-11, 1967) published by the United American Appeal (2 copies, each leaves); undated "Statement by Dr. Eugene S. Calendar" of the National Urban League in defense of Powell (1 leaf); handbill "Message from the Grass Roots: Calling for the Trial of All Congressmen who Oppose Powell" (2 copies, each 1 leaf); News Bulletin #119 of the Harlem Council for Economic Development, concerning funds for Powell's defense (4 leaves); mimeographed "Resolution" of the Pilgrimage to Preserve Powell's Chairmanship, The Ministers' and Laymen's Assembly (Jan. 8, 1967; 1 leaf, with ms. notes on verso); mimeographed "Open Letter to Ministers and Laymen" from the Pilgrimage to Preserve Powell's Chairmanship (Jan. 4, 1967) (2 copies, each 2 leaves); press release dated 1-8-1967 from the Pilgrimage to Preserve Powell's Chairmanship, with attached copy of the "Resolution" of the Pilgrimage bearing the same date (2 copies, each 3 leaves); program of the Ministers' and Layman's Assembly of the Pilgrimage to Preserve Powell's Chairmanship (1 leaf); press release dated 1-14-[1967] concerning a statement by Roy Wilkins in defense of Powell; autograph letter signed by H.H. Cain to the Amsterdam News, dated 3-18-1967; carbonscript letter signed by Gerald R. Ford to Harrison H. Cain, dated 3-15-1967 (1 leaf); 3 issues of newsletter "Your Washington Review" by Gerald R. Ford (dated Mar. 1, 8, and 15, 1967), with attached Jan/Feb. 1967 supplement and one newspaper clipping (5 leaves total); carbonscript letter from David N. Licorish to Mayor John V. Lindsay dated 1-7-1967 (2 leaves); carbonscript text by the National Committee for Black Power, including a "Tribute to Adam Clayton Powell" (2 leaves); press release dated 1-5-1967 containing a statement by Powell entitled "15 Facts" (4 leaves); typescript article draft "To Jews?" by Gaylord Axelrod, dated 1-14-1967 (3 leaves, plus attached cover leaf); press release dated 1-11-1967 concerning Howard K. Smith's comments on "The Powell Trouble" (2 leaves); press release dated 1-12-1967 concerning a CBS TV special on "Powell's Harlem" (2 leaves); mimeographed "Open Letter to Congressman John Conyers, Jr. of Detroit" by Revs. Walter A. Gray and Cleveland B. Sparrow, dated 2-13-1967 (4 leaves); 2nd leaf only of an unidentified press release on "The Powell Trouble"; final leaf only of a carbonscript "Statement by Mr. Young on Adam Clayton Powell"; 1 leaf of ms. notes, and 7 newspaper clippings.