Over the course of his lifetime, Rep. John Lewis (D-ga) saw Aretha Franklin sing more times than he can count — in stadiums, parks, at a private birthday in Washington, D.C. He can’t recall exactly when the first time was, but he knows where: her father’s church, in downtown Detroit. She was just a young girl. Back then, her father, C.L. Franklin, a Baptist minister and close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the famous one. “He had a syndicated program on Saturday nights,” Lewis recalls.
- 8/17/2018
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
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