His wife and newborn son died within days. Thomas A. Dorsey sat at a piano and wrote “Precious Lord”
In 1932, Thomas A. Dorsey's wife Nettie died in childbirth, and their baby son died soon after. Out of that grief he wrote "Take My Hand,…
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Mahalia Jackson
“Tell them about the dream, Martin”: the gospel singer who changed the most famous speech in American history
At the March on Washington on 28 August 1963, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson sang before Martin Luther King Jr. spoke. As he delivered his prepared text,…