The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Odetta Gordon

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Odetta Gordon

3/17/2006; 12/6/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2006.038

Civil rights activist, folk singer, and songwriter Odetta Gordon (1930 - 2008 ) is a Grammy nominee who performed at the March on Washington. Odetta was a National Medal of Arts and Humanities recipient and her album, Folk Songs became 1963's best selling folk album. Gordon was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 3/17/2006 and 12/6/2006, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 44m 28s

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Odetta, 1930-2008

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Anointed as the queen of American folk music by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Odetta Gordon, a coloratura soprano, was born Odetta Holmes on December 31, 1930 in Birmingham, Alabama. When she lost her father, Rueben Holmes, at a young age, her mother, Flora, remarried and gave the children their stepfather's name, Felious. Moving to Los Angeles with her family in 1936 at age six, Odetta began studying classical music. After graduating from high school, she attended Los Angeles City College where ...