She was the first African American to perform on the main stage at the Metropolitan Opera, the first African American artist ...

Marian Anderson, noted contralto ... that in 1936 she became the first African American to be invited to perform at the White House and then sang there again when Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt ...

Marian Anderson, one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century, once performed in the UN's gilded General Assembly ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

She was the first African American to perform on the main stage at the Metropolitan Opera, the first African American artist to solo with the New York Philharmonic and for over 50 years ...