More than simply ushers and Sunday School teachers, the Women of Harlem\'s Abyssinian Baptist Church were influential leaders in the congregations of Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Senior and Junior.
Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women in the Powell Era explores these women\'s lives at the Church and their roles in a Northern civil rights movement that took them and their pastor, the fiery Powell Junior, from protests for jobs on Harlem\'s 125th Street in the 1930s to demon.
More than simply ushers and Sunday School teachers, the Women of Harlem\'s Abyssinian Baptist Church were influential leaders in the congregations of Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Senior and Junior