Wings Over Jordan

from NPR. A story about Wings over Jordon, A Cleveland African-American singing group of the 1930s and 1940s started by Rev. G.T. Settle that appeared on Network Radio and according to Dave Davis of the Plain Dealer…

“traveled the nation during the Jim Crow era and played to sold out audiences everywhere. The group was popular with both blacks and whites and the Rev. Settle refused to allow audiences to be segregated.”

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