The revelation follows the release in May, following another FoI battle, of the so - called «
black spider memos» sent by the Prince to
ministers over
several years.
It was in 1941 when the young New York
minister Adam Clayton Powell Jr., with
several aides in tow, made a pilgrimage to Albany to convince Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of the need to carve out a tight congressional district for the
black residents of Harlem.