| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. By Nick Salvatore. (New York: Little, Brown, 2005. xii, 419 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-316-16037-7.)
In the mid-twentieth century, the Reverend C. L. Franklin built his reputation by sermonizing on the gospel circuit with famous singers such as Clara Ward before building and rebuilding the huge New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit. Father of the pop diva Aretha Franklin, he recorded dozens of sermons that sold briskly across the nation, and he became the most widely recognized African American preacher before the ascendancy of Martin Luther King Jr. Refusing to advocate an otherworldly salvation that ignored everyday suffering and racism, Franklin strongly supported King and the civil rights movement, helping stage a gargantuan protest rally in Detroit, where King rehearsed his "I have a dream" speech.	1
Despite Jeff Todd Titon's able editing of Give Me This Mountain (1989), a collection of Franklin's sermons, Franklin has received almost no scholarly attention. Until now. With the capable and dedicated assistance of Franklin's daughter, Erma Franklin, and older members of the New Bethel congregation, the labor historian Nick Salvatore has produced a thoroughly researched and splendidly written biography.	. . .

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