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In January 1967 legendary civil rights leader and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., issued this recording as a retort to his House colleagues, who stripped him of his committee chairmanship that month following a series of legal problems. The former preacher used call-and-response oratory and a full choir to take jibes at the House and exhort African-American voters to guard their political and economic freedom closely: “The white man respects only two things, your vote and your dollar.”
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “"Keep the Faith, Baby!" Record,” http://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/43006 (February 21, 2013)
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