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Sister Birdie Lee - This character is a little old lady who is called to God during one of the Reed Sisters' street corner services.

C. J. - This character is a young Christian boy who plays guitar in the band at the Tambourine Temple.

Chicken Crow-for-Day - This character--tall, thin, and aged sixty-five--is the first person converted after the Reed Sisters open their church indoors.

Essie Belle Johnson - This character is an unemployed woman of about forty, living on welfare in Harlem.

Marietta Johnson - This character is Essie's daughter who grows up in Richmond, Virginia, in the home of her grandmother, and has not lived with her mother for more than two of her sixteen years.

Buddy Lomax - Big-Eyed, this character is the latest in Laura's string of young men who, one night after services, walks down the church aisle and asks...

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