Adam Clayton Powell Jr., influential congressman and civil rights leader, died at the age of 63 in Miami. As the first African American elected to Congress from New York, he served nearly three decades and was a powerful voice for racial justice, labor rights, and anti-poverty initiatives. Powell chaired the House Education and Labor Committee, helping to pass key legislation in the 1960s that shaped America’s social safety net.
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