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gate Auditorium; sixty thousand persons filed by her coffin; and four thousand attended the ceremony, while another four thousand waited outside. The mayor of New Orleans and the governor of the state attended, and an integrated honor guard of black and white, men and women, stood at attention during the entire service (Goreau 1975, 609). The most spectacular aspect of the funeral, however, was the music. Bessie Griffin (b. 1927), another New Orleans native, sang Move On Up a Little Higher, composed by W. Herbert Brewster (1899-1987) and recorded by Miss Jackson in 1947-one of the first gospel recordings to sell over one million copies; Lou Rawls (b. 1936), once the leader of the gospel group the Pilgrim Travelers, sang Just a Closer Walk with Thee; and a 500-voice choir sang, among other songs, Take My Hand, Precious Lord, composed by Thomas A. Dorsey (b. 1899) (Two Cities Pay Tribute 1972). Miss Jackson's celebrity warranted some notice of her death from the wire services, and because she was considered the premier singer in her field, news stories carried additional information. Though she first gained fame in Chicago, she was a native of New Orleans.
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