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'Singing in a Strange Land': Civil Rights Hero C.L. Franklin

From his pulpit at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, the Rev. C.L. Franklin became one of the most important African-American preachers involved in the civil rights movement. Author Nick Salvatore talks with Ed Gordon about his biography of Franklin, Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America.

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