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C. L. Franklin.
American Baptist minister and civil rights activist (1915–1984)
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About C. L. Franklin
Clarence LaVaughn Franklin was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. Known as the man with the "Million-Dollar Voice", Franklin served as the pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit from 1946 until 1979, when in a suspected robbery attempt he was shot twice and spent his remaining five years in a coma. Franklin was the father of the American singer and songwriter Aretha Franklin. He was also the father of five other children: Vaughn Franklin, Erma Franklin, Cecil Franklin, Carolyn Franklin and Carol Ellan.
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- preacher, civil rights advocate
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 22, 1915
- Died
- July 27, 1984