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America's trailblazing celebrity couple
Hazel Scott's biographer Karen Chilton and playwright Murray Horwitz tell Rajan Datar why the life of Scott, jazz musician and Hollywood star, and her husband, the charismatic preacher and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. attracted so much attention in the 1940s.
(Photo: Scott and Clayton Powell pose for a White House Christmas greeting. Courtesy of Adam Clayton Powell III and Michigan University Press)
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