Barred by Congress : How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office /

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"On March 2, 1967, the New York Times ran the extra-large headline: "HOUSE EXCLUDES POWELL." The sensational story about Congress's exclusion of the long-term African American House member, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., led to a legal battle over the constitutionality of excluding a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lichtman, Robert M., 1933- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Congress. > House.
United States. > Congress. > House > Expulsion > History > 20th century.
Socialists > Political activity.
Excommunication.
Socialists > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.
Mormons > United States > Political activities > History > 20th century.
African American legislators > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An immigrant boy from England
  • Repression, prison, and politics
  • A race for Congress and church discipline
  • An election win and a nationwide campaign of vilification
  • The committee : exclusion or expulsion?
  • Exclusion and its aftermath
  • Immigrant, socialist, newspaperman, political boss
  • A term in the house, the Milwaukee leader, and the coming of the Great War
  • America at war, repression, and suppressing the leader
  • Elections, indictments, and the Chicago Trial
  • Committee hearings and an unsurprising exclusion
  • A second exclusion, the Supreme Court, and a return to the house
  • A young prince in Harlem and a neighborhood Civil Rights Movement
  • A combative house member, powell amendments, and notoriety
  • A political prosecution, a failed purge, and a new committee chairman
  • A productive but willful chairman and seeds of his fall
  • Bringing Adam down
  • Exclusion and a special slection
  • A historic Supreme Court decision.

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