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How Aretha Franklin's 'life changed forever' because of Martin Luther King

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ANI New York

Aretha Franklin has revealed how her life changed forever because of Martin Luther King.

The 72-year-old Memphis-born legend said that at a premiere of civil-rights film 'Selma' that when she was a little girl, she remembers there were certain restaurants that she could not eat at and so they used to go to the market instead, buy groceries and eat in the car, the New York Post reported.

The Queen of Soul, who doesn't get to be with entertainment industry people as much as she'd like to, living in Detroit, recalled of touring with her musician dad that when they had stop to get gas, they had to go to certain gas stations because they could not use the restrooms at all of them and could only use the restrooms at Gulf.

 

Franklin added that people have come a long way because of King and the civil-rights movement and this changed her life forever.

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First Published: Dec 22 2014 | 10:56 AM IST

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