SINGING IN A STRANGE LAND: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America Nick Salvatore
The telling biography of a civil rights leader, the father of the Queen of Soul, and one of America
This is an excellent book, well researched and well written. . . . Singing in a Strange Land expands the scholarship on Michigan and Midwestern history, providing great insight into the region's black leadership and the much understudied Civil Rights-Black Power struggle in the North and the West.--Michigan Historical Review