She had recorded several versions of the song, but they were relatively tame compared to the heights she could reach in front of a congregation. In the past, the gospel classic How I Got Over had allowed her to cut loose for 10, even 15 minutes at a time as she worked church aisles and reached into the pews to grasp hands and anoint foreheads. But their struggle was far from over.Ī Hammond organ simmered, and rhythmic handclapping broke out as the singer closed her eyes and rhapsodised.
“You know my soul looks back in wonder, how I got over,” she sang, praising the heavens for allowing her people to make it this far. announced “I have a dream” to cap the March on Washington DC on 28 August 1963, Sister Mahalia reminded the 250,000 citizens spread out in front of the Lincoln Memorial of the long road they had travelled. Minutes before her friend Martin Luther King Jr. Mahalia Jackson took America to church 50 years ago.
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