Over 80 years ago, Marian Anderson was barred from performing at Constitution Hall because she was Black. So she sang for thousands in front of the Lincoln Memorial instead.

ANDERSON: (Singing) Land where my fathers died, land of the pigrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. (APPLAUSE) SCHWARTZ: Marian Anderson had never intended to be a political figure.

When Marian Anderson descended the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939 for her career-defining performance before a crowd of 75,000 people, she was already an icon. Recently ...

Marian Anderson’s story “shows the importance of historical knowledge.” However the full 30-minute concert, he says, is only available via the UCLA Film Archives and costs a whopping $25 a ...

In 1939, Anderson gave a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. ... Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939.

Anderson retired from singing in 1955 and would go on to receive many prestigious awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the Congressional Gold Medal in 1977, the Kennedy ...

Marian Anderson, an internationally renowned opera singer and beloved Danbury resident, was posthumously inducted into the Connecticut Hall of Fame in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford ...

Singer Marian Anderson appears at the Ladies' Home Journal's "Women of the Decade Awards in New York on Nov. 28, 1979. The pioneering Black contralto's name will now replace Verizon's on the ...

ANDERSON: (Singing) Land where my fathers died, land of the pigrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. (APPLAUSE) SCHWARTZ: Marian Anderson had never intended to be a political figure.

Marian Anderson, who left South Philadelphia to become an internationally acclaimed contralto whose range went from spirituals to opera, was denied the chance to do a 1939 concert in Washington D.C… ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Singer Marian Anderson is getting new recognition 30 years after her death. The pioneering Black contralto’s name will now replace Verizon’s on the Philadelphia Orchestra ...