Book
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- ALMA POWELL: Children's Collection
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Audience
Ages 4-8.
Summary
Picture book biography told in rhyming verse. Charles Tindley was born free, though his childhood was far from easy. He had no chance to go to school, but the spirituals he heard as he worked in the fields made him long to know how to read the Gospel. Late at night, he taught himself to read from scraps of newspapers. From those small scraps, Charles raised himself to become a founding father of American gospel music whose hymn was the basis for the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome."
Subjects
- Methodist Church > Clergy > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Hymn writers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Gospel music > History and criticism > Juvenile literature.
- Methodist Church > Clergy > Biography.
- Hymn writers > United States > Biography.
- Gospel music > History and criticism.
- Tindley, Charles Albert > Juvenile literature.
- Tindley, Charles Albert.