Clarence LaVaughn 'C.L.' Franklin was a minister and civil rights activist. Franklin was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi on January 22, 1915, to Willie Walker and Rachel Walker Pittman. His father abandoned the family when Clarence was just four-years-old, and the next year Rachel married Henry Franklin. By the age of 16, Franklin was working […]
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