| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Nick Salvatore. Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 448. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $24.95.
Few would disagree that religion and music are hallmarks of black American culture, or that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the black preacher was a central figure in the black community. Remarkably, however, little is known today about the lives of some African American ministers who were most renowned in their time, black men and women who were distinguished for their preaching prowess, musical talents, and political activism. The graveyard of black history is littered with the names of these, and many more notables, who await the biographer who is willing to take on the task of unearthing their lives.	1
In Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America, Nick Salvatore reconstructs the life of a gifted and complicated man whose life coincided with the Great Migration; the rise of jazz, blues, gospel, and rhythm and blues; World Wars I and II; the interracial movement; and the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. He describes Franklin's rise from the depths of rural Mississippi poverty to become a leader in African American religion, and traces his journey from the rustic Mississippi Delta to Detroit, revealing both his genius and his flaws.	. . .

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