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Historian Noel Serrano stated: "God touched the vocal chords of this Great Woman and placed a special elixir to sing for His honor and Glory! Martin Luther King, Jr. In , she performed for Liberian President William Tubman. She ended her career in with a concert in Germany , and when she returned, made one of her final television appearances on The Flip Wilson Show.

Jackson devoted much of her time and energy to helping others. She established the Mahalia Jackson Scholarship Foundation for young people who wanted to attend college.

For her efforts in helping international understanding, she received the Silver Dove Award. Chicago remained her home until the end. Jackson was known to have played an important role during the civil rights movement. They also hoped that she would inspire the people who were getting discouraged with the boycott. Despite death threats, Mahalia Jackson agreed to sing in Montgomery.

Her concert was on December 6, Gayle that bus segregation was unconstitutional. In Montgomery, the ruling was not yet put into effect, so the bus boycott continued. There was a good turnout at the concert and they were happy with the amount of money raised.

However, when she returned to the Abernathy's home, it had been bombed. The boycott finally ended on December 21, when federal injunctions were served, forcing Montgomery to comply with the court ruling.

Although she was internationally known and had moved up to the northern states, she still encountered racial prejudice. One account of this was when she tried to buy a house in Chicago. Everywhere she went, the white owners and real estate agents would turn her away, claiming that the house had already been sold or that they changed their mind about selling.

When she finally found a house, the neighbors were not happy. Shots were fired at her windows and she had to contact the police for protection. White families started moving out and black families started moving in. Everything remained the same in her neighborhood except for the skin color of the residents. King and Abernathy continued to protest segregation. Board of Education decision. In a SCLC press release, King wrote that Jackson had "appeared on numerous programs that helped the struggle in the South, but now she has indicated that she wants to be involved on a regular basis".

King to "Tell them about the dream. Jackson said she hoped her music could "break down some of the hate and fear that divide the white and black people in this country". Jackson died in Chicago on January 27, of heart failure and diabetes complications. Two cities paid tribute: Chicago and New Orleans. Beginning in Chicago, outside the Greater Salem Baptist Church, 50, people filed silently past her mahogany, glass-topped coffin in final tribute to the queen of gospel song.

Mahalia's pastor, the Rev. Leon Jenkins; Mayor Richard J. Daley ; and Mrs. Coretta Scott King eulogized Mahalia during the Chicago funeral as "a friend — proud, black and beautiful".

Joseph H. Jackson , president of the National Baptist Convention, U. Three days later, a thousand miles away, the scene repeated itself: again the long lines, again the silent tribute, again the thousands filling the great hall of the Rivergate Convention Center in downtown New Orleans this time.

Moriah Baptist Church, where her recordings played through loudspeakers. Jackson's estate was reported at more than four million dollars. Some reporters estimated that record royalties, television and movie residuals, and various investments made it worth more. The bulk of the estate was left to a number of relatives, many of whom cared for Mahalia during her early years. Among principal heirs were relatives including her half-brother John Jackson and aunt Hannah Robinson. Neither of her ex-husbands, Isaac Hockenhull — and Sigmund Galloway — , were mentioned in her will.

Mahalia Jackson's music was played widely on gospel and Christian radio stations, such as Family Radio. Her good friend Martin Luther King, Jr. In , they co-wrote the hit "Lord, Don't Move the Mountain". In addition to sharing her singing talent with the world, she mentored the extraordinarily gifted Aretha Franklin.

Mahalia was also good friends with Dorothy Norwood and fellow Chicago-based gospel singer Albertina Walker. She also discovered a young Della Reese. On the twentieth anniversary of her death, Smithsonian Folkways Recording commemorated Jackson with the album I Sing Because I'm Happy , which includes interviews about her childhood conducted by Jules Scherwin.

Mahalia Jackson was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame , a special Grammy award established in to honor artists whose recordings are at least twenty-five years old and have "qualitative or historical significance. Uploaded by dimitryorlovski mail. Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo.

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