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Aug 30, 2018 · Paul Natkin/Archive Photos/Getty Images. No tribute to Aretha Franklin would be complete without citing the massive impact her father, the Rev. Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, had on her. He shaped...
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...
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. Franklin was the father of the American ...
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 Eagle Stirrith Her Nest” – Reverend C. L. Franklin (1953) Added to the National Registry: 2010 . Essay by Nick Salvatore (guest post)* Original album Original label C.L. Franklin “The Eagle Stirrith Her Nest” is arguably the most demanding sermon in the African American Baptist tradition.
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 ...
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