{"id":157,"date":"2020-02-24T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/?p=157"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:47:52","slug":"feb-17-aretha-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Feb 17: Aretha Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Julia O’Rourke<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAngela Davis must go free,\u201d Franklin said. \u201cBlack people will be free. I\u2019ve been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can\u2019t get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I\u2019m going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she\u2019s a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people. I have the money; I got it from Black people \u2014 they\u2019ve made me financially able to have it \u2014 and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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image source: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/music\/artists\/aretha-franklin-life-pictures\/franklin-martin-luther-king\/<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Growing up in a Baptist Church in Detroit Michigan wasn\u2019t easy. Her dad was a minister at their church. Even though he was a minister he didn\u2019t treat her mother very kindly. At the age of 18, she started her music career with Columbia Records. With her father as a civil rights activist and her music career growing fast, she used her fame and knowledge to also speak about racial equality. Franklin’s hit song \u201cRespect\u201d was used as an anthem for racial and gendered political movements. Using her talents to advocate equality was something she was amazing at. In 1968, Aretha Franklin sang \u201cTake My Hand, Precious Lord\u201d at Martin Luther King Jr\u2019s funeral. Just like King, she was an inspiration to many. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a black woman in the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s wasn\u2019t any easy thing. Aretha Franklin broke boundaries and created an inspiring life for others to look up to. I believe Aretha Franklin is an important person to acknowledge during Black History Month because of her amazing spirit and inspiring goals. It\u2019s important to have an African American women in the 50\u2019s as a role model. She overcame discrimination from her skin color and her gender. She used her talents to make change in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A strong example of Franklins commitment to the civil rights movement was when she offered to post bail for Angela Davis. Angela Davis was a revolutionary activist and scholar who was accused of assisting in a courtroom takeover which ended in four deaths. \u201cAngela Davis must go free,\u201d Franklin said. \u201cBlack people will be free. I\u2019ve been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can\u2019t get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I\u2019m going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she\u2019s a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people. I have the money; I got it from Black people \u2014 they\u2019ve made me financially able to have it \u2014 and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her selfless acts to the movement shows how serious she took equality. Aretha Franklin wasn’t just a woman with a good voice. She had things to say and wanted to help. I believe she is a very important person to learn about during Black History Month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Julia O’Rourke \u201cAngela Davis must go free,\u201d Franklin said. \u201cBlack people will be free. I\u2019ve been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can\u2019t get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I\u2019m going to see her free if there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[5,9],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american-history","category-black-history-month","tag-black-history-month-2020","tag-hist-210"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docholladay.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}