Today in History: October 26
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, the "Queen of Gospel Song," was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on , 1911. She was the daughter of Charity Clark, a laundress and maid, and Johnny Jackson, a Baptist preacher, barber, and longshoreman. Her mother died when she was five years old and she was then brought up by her extended family of one brother, six aunts, and several half-brothers and sisters—the children of her father.  Jackson grew up singing gospel music at the Plymouth Rock Baptist Church where her father preached.  She relocated to Chicago in 1927. Although her ambition was to become a nurse, she worked as a laundress and studied beauty culture at
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