Movie: Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

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Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson

Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson

Horace Clarence Boyer
Horace Clarence Boyer

John Sellers
John Sellers

George Avakian
George Avakian

Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel

Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong

Ed Sullivan
Ed Sullivan

Ralph Abernathy
Ralph Abernathy

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    Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a sickly child singing in New Orleans churches to her breakthrough with Columbia Records and her ascendancy to Carnegie Hall and Europe's great stages. Her story's told through archival footage and interviews with those who knew her best.

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    1997-01-01

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