Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Overview page. Subjects: politics — history of the USA.
(b. New Haven, Connecticut, 29 Nov. 1908; d. Miami, Florida, 4 Apr. 1972)
US; member of the US House of Representatives 1945–66, 1969–70 Although Adam Clayton Powell was to become a flamboyant figure...
Alfred Emanuel Smith
Overview page. Subjects: politics — history of the USA.
(b. New York, 30 Dec. 1873; d. New York, 4 Oct. 1944)
US; Governor of New York Smith was the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for the US presidency by a major political party. He was born and...
Andrew Young
Overview page. Subjects: politics — history of the USA.
(b. 12 March 1932),
civil rights activist, politician, and ambassador. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was the son of Andrew Jackson Young Sr., a dentist, and ...
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Overview page. Subjects: history of the USA — politics.
(1954)
The televised hearings that investigated alleged communist infiltration of the U.S. Army diminished public support for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican–Wisconsin) and led to his censure...
Articles of Confederation
Overview page. Subjects: politics — history of the USA.
On 7 June 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia moved in the Second Continental Congress that the thirteen American colonies declare their independence from Great Britain, and that Congress establish...
David Dinkins
Overview page. Subjects: politics — history of the USA.
(b. Trenton, New Jersey, 10 July 1927)
US; member of the New York State Legislature 1965–7, Mayor of New York City 1990–3 The son of a barber, Dinkins graduated BA from Howard University, Washington,...
Douglas Wilder
Overview page. Subjects: politics — history of the USA.
(b. 17 January 1931),
governor of Virginia and mayor of Richmond. Born in Richmond, Lawrence Douglas Wilder was named after the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the famous African American...
Edward Brooke
Overview page. Subjects: politics — history of the USA.
(b. 26 October 1919),
lawyer, politician, and writer. Born and raised in Woodrow Wilson's Washington, D.C., Edward William Brooke III proved to be a trailblazer who built a legal and ...
Federal Communications Commission
Overview page. Subjects: history of the USA — politics.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), created by the Federal Communications Act of 1934, assumed all federal oversight of broadcasting, telephone, and telegraph services. Under the initial...
George Wallace
Overview page. Subjects: history of the USA — politics.
(b. 25 August 1919; d.13 September 1998),
assistant attorney general of Alabama, member of the Alabama legislature, circuit judge, and governor of Alabama. George Corley Wallace Jr. will long be ...