Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Awarded damages against Powell
Associated Press · April 4, 1963
Mrs. Esther (Mommy) James, 66, a Negro domestic, was awarded $211,500 in damages today in her libel suit against Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y. She is shown outside the courtroom during the four-day trial in State Supreme Court in New York.
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