Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

New $5 bill will feature Martin Luther King, Marian Anderson, and Eleanor Roosevelt with Abraham Lincoln Published: Apr. 21, 2016, 10:15 a.m. Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial (Contributed ...

Despite that acclaim, in 1939 the Daughters of the American Revolution banned her from performing at its Constitution Hall. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ultimately intervened and facilitated ...

Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson in Japan on May 22, 1953. The furor reached Eleanor Roosevelt, who promptly resigned from the DAR, putting this incident on the front pages. It is thought that ...

In another historic first, Eleanor Roosevelt twice invited African American contralto opera singer Marian Anderson to perform at the White House - including for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ...

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt appears with opera singer Marian Anderson in Richmond, Va., July 2, 1939, ... “Beyond the Music, Marian Anderson, ...

Marian Anderson broke barriers throughout ... She was appearing at the invitation of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to bend its whites-only ...

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt had assembled an integrated crowd of 75,000 people—an unprecedented honor for a Black artist ... Marian Anderson first found her voice in the choir of the Union ...

After being barred from performing at Constitution Hall in 1939 because she was black, opera singer Marian Anderson gave a performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Author Raymond ...

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 ...