Excerpt from The Purge That Failed, Tammany V. Powell Powell, the only Negro on the City Council, was a nat ural candidate for the new Congressional district. He set out to get all three nominations - Democratic, Republican, and American Labor party. He succeeded and was elected without opposition in 1944. The Democrats were in power in Congress and were the majority party in Harlem, the La Guardia era was coming to an end in the normally Democratic city. Powell took his seat in Congress as a Democrat. About the Publisher ...
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Excerpt from The Purge That Failed, Tammany V. Powell Powell, the only Negro on the City Council, was a nat ural candidate for the new Congressional district. He set out to get all three nominations - Democratic, Republican, and American Labor party. He succeeded and was elected without opposition in 1944. The Democrats were in power in Congress and were the majority party in Harlem, the La Guardia era was coming to an end in the normally Democratic city. Powell took his seat in Congress as a Democrat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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