biography
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Franklin, C(larence) L(eVaughn)
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| lived:
| (1915–84)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and civil-rights activist, born near Indianola, Mississippi, USA, the father of Aretha Franklin. He attended the seminary at Greenville Industrial College, then moved to Detroit in the early 1950s and founded the New Bethel Baptist Church. Through his post there and during 30 years of radio broadcasts his powerful sermons reached a wide audience. In June 1963 he and Martin Luther King, Jr led a large civil rights march in Detroit that prefigured King's more famous march on Washington, DC. |
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