President Joe Biden gets emotional while quoting 'My Country 'Tis of Thee' and recalling a young Martin Luther King Jr. listening to the radio in 1939 and hearing Marian Anderson singing at the ...

Decades before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream Speech” at the Lincoln Memorial, Marian Anderson stood on the same steps and sang for an audience of 75,000 after being denied ...

With three distinct programs to celebrate the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ... Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America” by Raymond Arsenault; ...

In celebration of what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 96th birthday, ... where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Many musicians, including Marian Anderson, Mahalia ...

In the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. would follow, literally, in Anderson's footsteps. This tightly focused, richly textured narrative by acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault ...

He’s got the whole world in his hands,” echoed classical contralto star Marian Anderson to a rising crowd approaching a record of at least 250,000 people across the National Mall on August 28 ...

They had heard Marian Anderson sing the national anthem, ... Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation,” Drew D. Hansen wrote about a November 1963 interview King gave to ...

Opera singer Marian Anderson, denied ... She returned to the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 to sing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ...