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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 ...
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 ...
Liquid Theatre Collective and Randy Donaldson, Executive Producer, will present two additional private, invitation only readings of MARIAN, an original musical based on the life of world-renowned ...
Following a devastating flood in 2020, the Marian Anderson Museum and Historical Society, at 762 S. Martin St., is now open to the public and restored to its original glory. “This house was ...