Known as the man with the "Million-Dollar Voice", Franklin served as the pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit from 1946 until 1979, when in a suspected robbery attempt he was …

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 …

Aug 30, 2018 · C.L. Franklin was born in rural Mississippi to a poor sharecropper’s family. He lived in the belly of the beast; he later said he experienced “segregation in the raw.”

“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 …

He was a Black Baptist minister and civil rights activist. He was born Clarence LaVaughn Walker in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to sharecroppers Willie and Rachel (née Pittman) Walker. C.L. …

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 …

Born in Sunflower County on 22 January 1915, Clarence LaVaughn Franklin became one of the most influential ministers on the twentieth-century national black religious scene and an …

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 …

C.L. Franklin was not only gifted as a speaker but also as a singer. His interest in music, and in evangelizing, led him to join the gospel tour in 1953, the first preacher to do so.

Jul 28, 1984 · DETROIT -- The Rev. C.L. Franklin, civil rights activist and father of soul singer Aretha Franklin, died Friday. He was 69. Franklin was shot by burglars in 1979 and spent …