found: Gospel caravan [SR] p1988:label (Sallie Martin) booklet (black gospel singer, regularly with First Church of Deliverance in Chicago; eighty years old in 1979)
found: New Grove dict. of American music(Martin, Sallie, b. Pittfield, GA, 11-20-1896)
found: Southern, E. Biog. dict. of Afro-American & African musicians(Martin, Sally, gospel singer, b. 11-20-1896)
found: Throw out the lifeline [SR] p1993:container (Sallie Martin (1895-1988))
found: All music guide WWW site, Sept. 29, 2010(Sallie Martin; b. Nov. 20, 1895, Pittfield, GA, d. June 18, 1988, Chicago, IL)
found: Social Security death index, Sept. 29, 2010(Martin, Sallie; b. Nov. 20, 1895, d. June 18, 1988)
found: African American National Biography, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Martin, Sallie; gospel musician / singer; born 20 November 1895 in Pittfield, Georgia, United States; joined the Fire Baptized Holiness Church, eventually becoming a popular song leader; was a featured soloist with Thomas A. Dorsey (1930s); along with Dorsey, became co-founder and vice president of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses (NCGCC) (1932); launched the Martin and Morris Music Company, publishing works by such leading gospel composers as James Cleveland, Sam Cooke, and Lucie Campbell along with Morris' own songs; founded the Sallie Martin Singers, also called the Sallie Martin Colored Ladies Quartet, the first all-woman gospel group (1940-1970s); appeared in George T. Nierenberg's documentary Say Amen Somebody (1982); was named an African American Living Legend by The Los Angeles County Public Library (1985) and inducted posthumously into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame (2000); died 18 June 1988 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)
