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Author Patrick, Denise Lewis, author.

Title Mahalia Jackson : freedom's voice / Denise Lewis Patrick ; interior illustrations by Jen Bricking.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J BIO JACKSON    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 92 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Series VIP: very important people
VIP, very important people (Harper (Firm : New York, N.Y.))
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Growing up by the riverside -- Aunt Duke's World -- A new home -- Spreading gospel music -- Mahalia's mission -- The voice of a nation -- "Troubles of the world" -- Going home.
Summary "Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, she was also a civil rights activist who sang at the March on Washington. And she traveled the world, too!" -- Book Jacket.
Subject Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972 -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Gospel music -- Juvenile literature.
Singers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Singers.
Women -- Biography.
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972. (OCoLC)fst00009238
Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
Gospel music. (OCoLC)fst00945026
Singers. (OCoLC)fst01119301
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Subject African Americans -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Bricking, Jennifer, illustrator.
Added Title VIP: Mahalia Jackson
ISBN 9780062978097 (hardcover)
0062978098 (hardcover)
9780062889683 (paperback)
0062889680 (paperback)
9781713758532 (Follett bdg.)
1713758539 (Follett bdg.)
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