A Philadelphia native who once sang on the streets for nickels and dimes is being remembered for a concert she gave 70 years ago. On Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson performed for a crowd of at ...

Eighty years ago this week, the African American contralto Marian Anderson made history. When the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her perform at Constitution Hall because she was ...

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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 the chance ...

Eighty years ago Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial after the African-American performer was denied use of the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall. Now we're going to ...

On Easter Sunday 1939, African American opera singer Marian Anderson provided what might be called a warm-up act for the civil rights era with her famous performance on the steps of the Lincoln ...

Famed opera singer Marian Anderson will soon be immortalized with a statue outside of the Academy of Music. News that the likeness of the South Philadelphia-made contralto singer and trailblazer will ...

Marian Anderson’s rich contralto voice is one that will forever reverberate through the chronicles of American history. A trailblazer for Civil Rights, she remains a symbol of grace and courage in the ...

The acclaimed contralto gave the performance that helped spark the civil rights movement on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in On Easter Sunday 1939, African American opera singer Marian Anderson ...