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 ...
You can read this quote by Marian Anderson, from her autobiography My Lord, What a Morning (1956), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Suggested Reading ...
A sold-out recital in March 1940 forever changed the story of downtown Medford’s Holly Theatre. Classical singer and Black civil rights activist Marian Anderson, who was denied performing in the ...