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By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music

By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music

Weatherford, Carole Boston
Collier, Bryan

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ISBN10: 1534426361
ISBN13: 9781534426368
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: Jan 14 2020
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 9.00 Depth: 12.10
Language: English
A stirring picture book biography from ALSC Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier, about gospel composer and preacher Charles Albert Tindley, best known for the gospel hymn We'll Understand It Better By and By.

At a time when most African Americans were still enslaved, Charles Tindley was born free. His childhood was far from easy, with backbreaking hours in the fields, and no opportunity to go to school. But the spirituals he heard as he worked made him long to know how to read the Gospel for himself. Late at night, he taught himself to read from scraps of newspapers. From those small scraps, young 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.

Told in lilting verse with snippets of spirituals and Tindley's own hymns woven throughout, Carole Boston Weatherford's lyrical words and Bryan Collier's luminous pictures celebrate a man whose music and conviction has inspired countless lives.

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