Mahalia
Americannoun
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Louis Armstrong, Woody Guthrie, Mahalia Jackson and Leonard Bernstein are just a few of the artists who played and mingled at Music Inn in the ’50s.
More specific, and realistic, are her 2012 portraits of singer Mahalia Jackson and artist Romare Bearden, their faces centered amid text arranged in quilt-like designs.
From Washington Post
In 1965 he organized a performance in support of the demonstrators who marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama with a roster that included Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, Odetta, Joan Baez, Sammy Davis Jr. and Tony Bennett.
From Salon
Mr. Belafonte, second from left, in Chicago in 1966 with, from left, Sidney Poitier, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and the civil rights activist Al Raby.
From New York Times
There will also be performances paying tribute to the civil rights activist and singer Bayard Rustin, which will be presented by the drummer Bryan Carter, as well as concerts celebrating the singers Mahalia Jackson and Sarah Vaughan.
From New York Times
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