Her voice filled churches, concert halls and, one summer day in 1963, the National Mall.

Mahalia Jackson was born in New Orleans on October 26, 1911. Raised singing in church, she moved to Chicago as a teenager and became the most celebrated gospel singer of her era, earning the title "Queen of Gospel."

Her recordings brought gospel music to audiences around the world, and she was a committed supporter of the civil rights movement. At the 1963 March on Washington, she sang shortly before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

What song lifts your spirits every time you hear it?

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