- Collection:
- Laurraine Goreau Interviews and Recordings
- Title:
- LG037 Concert and Interview: Mahalia Jackson; John Hammond; Xernona Clayton
- Contributor to Resource:
- Goreau, Laurraine
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972
Clayton, Xernona
Hammond, John - Publisher:
- New Orleans, La. : Tulane University Digital Library
- Date of Original:
- 1972-05
1973-08-10
1973-09-16 - Subject:
- Civil rights movements
Music trade
Civil rights workers
Civil rights demonstrations - Location:
- United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005 - Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Side 1: Recordings from Mahalia Jackson Japan/India Tour in May 1971, Mumbai, St. Thomas Cathedral. Side 2: Interview with John Hammond on 1973-08-10. Interview with Xernona Clayton from Atlanta, Georgia, conducted by telephone, continued from Tape ID: LG026. Abstract for India recording, Hammond, and Clayton: [00:00–55:14] LG037Goreau_Side1 contains a recording from Jackson's Japan/India Tour in May 1971, at Mumbai's St. Thomas's Cathedral. [00:00–02:37] LG037Goreau_Side2a begins mid-interview with record producer John Hammond speaking briefly about his time at Mercury, Vanguard, and Columbia records. [02:42–59:20] In this September 16, 1973 interview, Xernona Clayton, civil rights leader and broadcaster, shares various anecdotes about Jackson from different time periods, spanning their meetings in Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. She describes first meeting Jackson in 1956 in Chicago, at a dinner Jackson made for Clayton and her husband – 04:40. She goes on to discuss how Jackson was a "quiet, undercover force" between politicians and civil rights reforms, especially in regards to creating her temple to teach children – 14:45. Clayton also shares her experience of Jackson and Martin Luther King's appearance at the "Freedom Rally" in Los Angeles in 1961, an event she helped promote – 42:40. Interview continues on LG037Goreau_Side2b.
This recording was digitized in 2020 as part of a Recordings at Risk grant funded project administered by CLIR, "Tell the real story of me": Mahalia Jackson and Black Gospel Quartets in the South.
specialcollections@tulane.edu
LG037 Concert and Interview: Mahalia Jackson; John Hammond; Xernona Clayton, Laurriane Goreau collection, HJA-059, Tulane University Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. - Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:122654
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to portions of this collection has been transferred to Tulane University Special Collections. Tulane University can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or owner’s heir for permission to publish where Tulane University Special Collections does not hold the copyright. For permission to publish collections material to which TUSC holds intellectual property rights, please contact Research Services at specialcollections@tulane.edu.
- Extent:
- 1 cassette (1 hr., 58 min., 14 sec.)
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
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