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May 27, 2021 · CL Franklin was a Baptist minister and circuit preacher, originally from Shelby, Mississippi. Like Aretha's mother Barbara Siggers Franklin, her father already had a child from a prior relationship, a daughter named Carl Ellan Kelley, who died in 2019. He had fathered the child with Mildred Jennings, a 12-year-old member of his congregation ...
The Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin (January 22, 1915 – July 27, 1984), better known as C. L. Franklin, was a highly influential African-American Baptist preacher and civil rights activist. He was also the father of the legendary singer Aretha Franklin.
Jul 28, 1984 · The Rev. C. L. Franklin, civil rights activist and father of soul-singer Aretha Franklin, died today. He was 69. Mr. Franklin had been in a coma since suffering a gunshot wound in a robbery...
Aug 30, 2018 · August 30, 2018 10:13 am. She was the “Queen of Soul.” He was “The Black Prince.” Her voice transformed music. His “whooping” changed preaching. And while classics such as “Think” and “Chain of Fools” became her signature songs, his sermon on “The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest” became such a pulpit hit that it was added to the Library of Congress.
It wasn’t long before he formed his own group, C.L. Franklin’s Gospel Caravan, featuring such performers as the Clara Ward Singers and his young daughter Aretha Franklin. Noted as a civic leader, Franklin is remembered for organizing the 1963 Walk to Freedom in Detroit that attracted 125,000 marchers and featured his friend Dr. Martin ...
1915-1984. Minister, civil rights activist. C. L. Franklin was a Detroit minister and civil rights leader who helmed one of the city's largest Baptist congregations in the 1950s and 1960s, but he is better known as the father of rhythm-and-blues singer Aretha Franklin. Her career began on the national gospel-music tours he headlined when she ...
Clarence LaVaughn Franklin (né Walker; January 22, 1915 – July 27, 1984) was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. Known as the man with the "Million-Dollar Voice", Franklin served as the pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit from 1946 until he was shot and wounded in 1979.
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