Marian Anderson, was an American contralto, perhaps best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined a junior church choir at the age of six, and applied to an all-white music school after her graduation from high school in 1921, but was turned away because she was black. Wikipedia
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, appalled at the Hall's racist action, opened the Lincoln Memorial for Anderson's concert. www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=show...
Several other black divas preceded Anderson, but she was the first credited with breaking the glass ceiling of race and become internationally acclaimed. www.virtualology.com/virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofwomen/M...
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