John Conyers, Jr.
May, 1968
"Politically, the Negro is just coming out of the Civil War," says 38-year-old John Conyers, Jr., the Michigan Democrat from Detroit whose two terms in the House of Representatives have done much to speed that process. Filling the power vacuum left by Adam Clayton Powell, he has rapidly emerged as Congress' most responsibly militant Negro leader. His belief that the battle against poverty and discrimination comes before the Vietnam conflict has repeatedly put him at odds with the Admin...
