... born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York. He was an illegitimate child to Emma Berdis Jones. Soon after Baldwin's birth his mother remarried. Baldwin's step father, David Baldwin, was a preacher who had followed the Great Migration North from his home in New Orleans in the 1920. Together, they had eight other children. James Baldwin never knew his biological father and ... ...

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... by looking at him, he had a mixed ancestry, and he used this to his advantage by telling each ethic group that he was that particular ethnicity. Powell was also the preacher of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and the people in his congregation were loyal supporters of his political career and aided him immensely in his campaign for Congress. On ... ...

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