Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson ... Union Baptist Church at the corner of Fitzwater and Martin Streets. It was within these walls that Marian first began to sing.

At 13, Marian was singing in the church’s adult choir ... It was the congregation of the Union Baptist Church that gave Miss Anderson her start. Then a group of interested music lovers gave ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...