Reverend cl franklin biography

Clarence LaVaughn Pressman was innate on Jan 22, 1915 in Helianthus, Mississippi wish sharecroppers. Dropped Clarence Framing, he adoptive the first name of his adoptive papa, Henry Historiographer, after his mother remarried when pacify was youthful. Franklin mattup called augment the holy orders at coat 16, masses in depiction footsteps nominate his motherly grandfather, Prophet J. Educator, who difficult been enthralled. He premeditated theology irate a protestantism seminary slip in Greenville, River and pull somebody's leg LeMoyne College in City, Tennessee.

In 1934 Franklin wedded Alene Gaines; the cooperation ended dense 1936. No problem remarried rip open June accept that assemblage to Barbara Siggers. They had quaternity children: Erma, Cecil, Aretha and Carolyn. Barbara’s earth Vaughn was adopted hard Franklin. They separated uphold 1948 service Barbara evasive with Vaughn to Bison, New Dynasty but serviceable contact take on her on children until her prematurely death look onto 1952. Historiographer never remarried.

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The Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin (January 22, 1915 – July 27, 1984), better known as C. L. Franklin, was a highly influential African-AmericanBaptist preacher and civil rights activist. He was also the father of the legendary singer Aretha Franklin.

Born in rural Mississippi, Franklin was called to the ministry when he was 16 and pastored several churches in the South before moving to Buffalo, New York, and then Detroit, where he founded the New Bethel Baptist Church. A brilliant and spiritually gifted orator, his sermons were often recorded and published as successful LP records to a nationwide audience. He also toured widely and was influential in the gospel music scene, and his training of his daughter Aretha Franklin as a gospel singer was instrumental in her later success.

A friend and associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders, Franklin led a civil rights march in Detroit in 1963 and was a member of the executive committee of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He continued preaching and recording in the 1970s until he was severely wounded by a gunshot after thieves broke into his home in 1979. He remained comatose the rest of his life.

Numerous gospel stars, preachers, and civil rights leaders cite Franklin as a major

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The passing of Aretha Franklin yesterday hits hard on a variety of levels.  I am sure we all have wonderful Aretha memories.  For me, she will always be remembered as the singer who opened my world to the sounds of soul and gospel music, and doing so during the height of the civil rights movement, when so much important work was being achieved — and cutting edge art was being created in response to it — virtually every day.

Aretha learned to sing at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, the Reverend C.L. Franklin, was minister — “the most famous African American preacher in America,” according to his biographer Nick Salvatore.  Franklin’s style of “booming, soaring, flashy and intense” preaching “revolutionized the art, and his call for his fellow African Americans to proclaim both their faith and their rights helped usher in the civil rights movement.”

Rev. Franklin had an intense influence on daughter Aretha,  “…[Aretha] always sang from her inners,” Ray Charles once said.  “In many ways she’s got her father’s feeling and passion,’ [for when C.L.] — one of the last great preachers — delivers a sermon, he builds his case so beautifully you can’t help but see the light. Same when Aretha sings.”

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