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She lost her mother at age 10, had two children by 14 but from the moment she held a microphone in her hands, there was no looking back.
In 1967, the United States was a hotbed of racial tension. Over the course of a few months, there were one hundred and fifty-nine riots across the country. The Long, Hot Summer of 1967 saw millions of African-American people who took to the streets to protest racial discrimination and segregation that had been in place for years. From city to city, race riots broke out, leaving deaths and destruction in its wake. A song soon became the civil rights anthem: R-E-S-P-E-C-T me/ Find out what it means to me!
It was fitting that Aretha Franklin‘s version of a song soul singer Otis Redding had released a couple of years earlier became the battle cry for a generation of black, oppressed black Americans. Her connection to the…
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