Editing Marietta T. Webb (section)

==Influence==

In 1934, Webb became a founding member of a Christian Science congregation in East Los Angeles made up of almost entirely Black Americans. The press called her a "world known church worker," and in 1950, a year before her death, she was the subject of an article in ''[[Ebony Magazine]]'' featuring Black American Christian Scientists whose numbers had "burgeoned." The photograph the magazine used for the feature shows Webb reading the Bible without glasses, confirming a healing of vision troubles she had written about in her 1906 [[The Christian Science Journal|Journal]] testimony.<ref name="Mother Church and Race">{{cite news |title=Ways Mother Church Responded to Racial Unrest|url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/what-were-some-ways-the-mother-church-responded-to-racial-unrest-in-the-1960s/|publisher=Mary Baker Eddy Library|date=13 July 2020}}</ref>

Webb's ardent participation in the [[Christian Science]] movement influenced a host of Black American adherents in the Jazz music world in the early to mid-20th century, most notably actor and singer [[Pearl Bailey]], percussionist [[Lionel Hampton]], violinist and conductor [[Everett Lee]], musician [[Cornelius Bumpus]], and singer and composer [[Blanche Calloway]]. [[Academy Awards|Academy award-nominated]] actor [[Alfre Woodard]] has been public about her practice of the religion for years.<ref name="Notable African Americans">{{cite news |last1=Voorhees |first1=Amy B. |title=Christian Science and Race in America|url=https://uncpressblog.com/2021/03/11/marietta-webb-christian-science-and-race-in-america/|publisher=UNC Press|date=11 March 2021}}</ref><ref name="Hampton and Christian Science">{{cite news |first1=Brian |last1=Dakss|title=Jazz Great Lionel Hampton Christian Science|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jazz-great-lionel-hampton-dead-at-94/|publisher=CBS News|date=31 August 2002}}</ref><ref name="Cornelius Bumpus">{{cite news |first1=William |last1=Holland |first2= Cornelius |last2=Bumpus|title=Jazz Musician Talks about what Changed His Life|url=https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/1985/4/87-15/a-jazz-musician-talks-about-what-changed-his-life?ICID=SEN%20Hamburger%20Menu|publisher=Christian Science Sentinel|date=15 April 1985}}</ref><ref name="Blanche Calloway">{{cite news |title=The Queen of Syncopation|url=https://theleemsmachine.com/bean/blog/2020/08/11/blanche-calloway-the-queen-of-syncopation/|publisher=The Leems Machine|date=11 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="Alfre Woodard">{{cite news |title=Alfre Woodard Christian Science|url=https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/alfre_woodard_303656|publisher=Brainy Quote|date=9 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="Woodard Faith">{{cite news |title=Celebrity Faith|url=https://www.beliefnet.com/celebrity-faith-database/w/alfre-woodard.aspx|publisher=Beliefnet|date=5 July 2022}}</ref>