Only on Sundays: Mahalia Jackson's Long Journey

Only on Sundays: Mahalia Jackson's Long Journey is a look back at the turn of the 20th century in America, and one black southern woman's struggle to attain the American dream. The song Mahalia Jackson is best known for, "Nobody knows the Troubles I've Seen," could have been written for Jackson's journey out of Nigger Town, New Orleans to Chicago's Promised Land. Her struggles didn't stop in Chicago, the struggles never ended. After 30 years of fighting for acceptance from both Black and white America, she miraculously achieved the recognition, the wealth, the security that had been a dream for so long. It wasn't, however, until she met the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. that she would begin her fight for social justice for all Americans.