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Mahalia Jackson was born in 1911. Jackson sang what many called the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. Full of power and spiritual resolve, Jackson used her singing talent to inspire, nourish and strengthen the participants of the civil rights movement. As a child growing up in New Orleans, Jackson sang at church and as a teen traveled and performed with gospel composer Thomas A. Dorsey.

For many, Mahalia Jackson's voice represented mystery and majesty. In describing the legendary gospel singer, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who chose her to sing at the March on Washington in 1963, said, "A voice like hers comes along once in a millennium." Jackson won 5 Grammy Awards, including Best Soul-Gospel Performance in 1977 for the song, “How I Got Over.”

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📸 "The Queen of Gospel," Mahalia Jackson, belts out hits in the Universal Studio, 1961. Photograph by Lacey Crawford. Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture