It wasn't just Jackson's first husband who would pressure her to sing secular music. Is Mahalia a true story? The upcoming biopic “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia Jackson” — the first project produced under a partnership between “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts and Lifetime, ...
Jackson, Sr. was a stevedore and a barber who later became a Baptist minister. He fathered four other children besides Mahalia – Wilmon and then Yvonne, Pearl and Johnny, Jr. Her father’s sister, Jeanette Jackson-Burnett, and husband, Josie, were vaudeville entertainers....