Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27 ... Roosevelt ultimately intervened and facilitated Anderson's Easter Sunday outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939—an event ...

Marian Anderson, noted contralto, sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at the dedication of a mural commemorating her free public concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939.

The Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall will be renamed in honor of legendary vocalist Marian Anderson ... the song Anderson made famous during her historic Lincoln Memorial concert in 1939.