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Gospel Music and the Blues. Clarence LaVaughn Franklin (né Walker; January 22, 1915 – July 27, 1984) was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. [2] 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.
New Bethel Baptist Church may refer to: New Bethel Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan) New Bethel Baptist Church (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) See also.
Franklin was born in Memphis, to Barbara (née Siggers) and Reverend C. L. Franklin. [3] The youngest of the minister's six children, she moved to Buffalo, New York, shortly after her birth. [4] Around 1946, the Franklin family settled in Detroit, [4] where Carolyn would begin singing at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church.
Memphis: Also known as Beale Street Baptist Church, historic church built for a congregation of newly freed slaves. 60: First Colored Baptist Church: First Colored Baptist Church: July 14, 2000 : 682 S. Lauderdale St. Memphis: 61
First Baptist Church (Lynchburg, Virginia) First Baptist Church (Madison, Florida) First Baptist Church (Memphis, Tennessee) First Baptist Church (Murray, Kentucky) First Baptist Church (New Bern, North Carolina) First Baptist Church (Owensboro, Kentucky) First Baptist Church (Paintsville, Kentucky) First Baptist Church (Panama City, Florida)
Dickerson LeMoyne Shillicutt Wells is an American preacher from Memphis, Tennessee in the Church of God in Christ and was the youngest minister, at the time in 1978, to be ordained as a clergyman in the COGIC denomination in the state of Tennessee.
First Baptist Church East Nashville; New Bethel Baptist Church (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) New Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church; New Market Presbyterian Church (New Market, Tennessee) New Providence Presbyterian Church, Academy, and Cemetery; New Salem United Methodist Church; Northside Presbyterian Church
She performed in church and later worked as a pianist. [1] Barbara Siggers married Clarence LaVaughn Franklin on June 3, 1936. The couple had four children: Erma (1938–2002), Cecil (1940–1989), Aretha (1942–2018), and Carolyn Franklin (1944–1988). Prior to the marriage, Barbara had a son, Vaughn (1934–2002) from a previous ...