Mahalia Jackson's story is an inspiring one that is thoughtfully told in this new biography of a woman who many called the world's greatest gospel singer. Rising up from challenging roots that included jobs as laundress. maid, and laborer in a logging camp, Mahalia found fame and adulation from small southern churches to Carnegie Hall and alongside Martin Luther King Jr on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Her unwavering faith guided her and was the basis of both her passion and success.
