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The Golden Age of Gospel

Season 1 Episode 2 | 52m 26s

Starting in the 1940s, GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black sacred music and the segregated highways of the American South — through the successful careers of Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. As the lines between the sacred and secular blur, gospel music becomes the powerful soundtrack of the freedom struggle.

Aired: 01/31/24 | Expires: 03/11/24
Corporate support for GOSPEL was provided by Bank of America. Major funding support was provided by the Lilly Endowment Inc., Gilead Sciences, Inc., the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Emerson Collective and the Ford Foundation. Funding was also provided by members of The Inkwell Society and by public television viewers like you.
Extras
Shirley Caesar's 1988 album Live in Chicago features the song "Hold My Mule."
Andre Crouch brought the gospel sound to the music of Michael Jackson and Madonna.
Twinkie Clark performs two of her gospel compositions for Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
How do you spread the gospel to young black millennials motivated by digital activism?
A month after the March on Washington, four little girls were murdered at a Sunday School.
Mahalia provided the soundtrack and MLK gave the sermon for the 1963 March on Washington.
The legendary Mahalia Jackson provided the soundtrack for the Civil Rights Movement.
Rev. Dwight Andrews discusses C.L. Franklin and what Black preaching is.
Rev. Franklin recorded more than 70 albums of sermons
Dionne Warwick weighs in on what was special about Mahalia Jackson's voice.