Activist New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. speaks out at Vermont Avenue Baptist against Capital Transit’s refusal to hire black streetcar conductors, 1942.

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This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Vermont Avenue Baptist Church
Activist New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. speaks out at Vermont Avenue Baptist against Capital Transit’s refusal to hire black streetcar conductors, 1942.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Vermont Avenue Baptist Church

Over the course of four transformative decades, Vermont Avenue Baptist Church was a hub for civil rights organizing in the District of Columbia. Beginning in 1929 with the leadership of Reverend C.T. Murray, the church expanded its rolls to nearly…