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Born: May 16, 1929

1930-1960 Betty Carter was born Lillie Mae Jones in Flint, Michigan, on May 16, 1930. Though some web sources will list 1929 as her year of birth 1930 is the actual year Betty Carter was born. Her birth name was Lilly Mae Jones and she was born in Flint Michigan on May 16. She grew up in Detroit where her father James Jones worked as the musical director at the local church there. Lily-Mae sang at the Hartford Avenue Church: Its pastor was reverend Charles A. Hill a central figure in Detroit's early civil rights struggle. Her Mother Bessie was a woman who thought, like many religious African- Americans, that Jazz was "the Devil's music". Her mother would remain an active member of the N.A.A.C.P