Tambourines to Glory | Characters

Sister Birdie Lee
Birdie Lee is a “little old lady” who is called to God during one of the Reed Sisters’ street corner services. She had followed God in her younger days, but since then she “backslid, backslid, backslid.” Now she has determined to stay on the path of righteousness. As is typical in this kind of service, Birdie Lee shouts out her story, or “testifies,” right in the middle of Laura’s preaching. She grabs the tambourine, sings a song of praise, and shakes the tambourine “so well that the whole corner started to rock and sway, feet to patting,...

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