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This struggle was shared by the Black community over the centuries since enslavement first began, and it was the same struggle that united people at the 1963 March on Washington.This struggle—against marginalization, unpaid work, violence, humiliation, and poverty—defined Jackson's own childhood and drove her musical intensity.
Jackson was turned away at lunch counters in the South and blocked from buying a home in a white neighborhood in Chicago.
In many ways, the story of "How I Got Over" is the story of the Mahalia Jackson sang all of her songs with a legendary passion and intensity that often drove audiences to tears, and she sang from a place of deep religious commitment.
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And what better music to represent this than music that began in the segregated and oppressed South in one of the most important places of refuge for the African-American community, the church?As civil rights activists gained traction with the Supreme Court, the legislature, and even the presidency (Kennedy, an ally to many civil rights causes, was elected in 1960), Mahalia Jackson's booming voice provided a gospel soundtrack at many of the key events.
How She Got Over.
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She made gospel famous all over the world, and she also made civil rights sound beautiful, possible, and imminent. Coretta Scott King said, "I think she sang more beautifully than I had ever heard her sing before" (Jackson was traumatized by King's death, and she was also becoming increasingly ill, dealing with heart problems and an untimely separation from her second husband.
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Clara Ward (April 21, 1924 - January 16, 1973) was a gospel artist who achieved great success, both artistic and commercial, in the 1940s and 1950s as leader of The Famous Ward Singers. And I'm just the Mahalia Jackson that they got through saying how wonderful I am" (The movement for civil rights had one of its first big victories in 1954 with the Supreme Court decision In 1956, Jackson met the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, a Baptist pastor deeply involved in the civil rights struggle.
Mahalia Jackson followed it up with a rousing performance of "How I Got Over."
Lord, I’ve been ‘buked and I’ve been scorned And I’ve been talked ‘bout as sure as you’re born And my soul looked back and wondered How I got over…
According to the website, it was the 15th-best reviewed album of 2010. A gifted singer and arranger, Ward took the lead-switching style used by male gospel quartets to new heights, leaving room for spontaneous improvisation and vamping by each member of the group while giving virtuouso singers such as Marion Williams the opportunity to step forward in songs such as "Surely, God Is Able" (the first million-selling gospel hit), "How I Got Over" (which …
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Her influence goes beyond the power of her voice.
Clara Ward (April 21, 1924 - January 16, 1973) was a gospel artist who achieved great success, both artistic and commercial, in the 1940s and 1950s as leader of The Famous Ward Singers.
It was about something, about personal struggle, about surviving oppression, and about resisting injustice on earth while also seeking to transcend injustice through religion.
Her mother died while she was still young, and Jackson went to live with a strict aunt (her father, a Baptist pastor with a different wife and children, did not want to take her).
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The music conveyed a sense of hope and ultimate triumph.
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