I mentioned, in passing, Marian Anderson, whose 1939 open-air concert at the memorial helped launch the modern civil rights movement. And it suddenly occurred to me that it had been a long time ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Marian Anderson’s performance of “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939. In honor of the historic moment ...

located at the National Museum of American History Photo by Hugh Talman For her 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial, Marian Anderson wore a bright orange jacket, which recently joined the ...

For weeks before the Lincoln Memorial concert in 1939 ... in the past and is not what the D.A.R. is today, to show that Marian Anderson is a person we should be celebrating.” ...

And author Raymond Arsenault, whose book The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial and the Concert details the concert scene, says organizers knew the important role radio would ...

While she's best known for her 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance of "America ... CEO of the National Marian Anderson Museum, said. The museum is home to the phone Anderson used to answer the ...

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monument behind her were the words “all men are ...

By Anthony Tommasini The night before Marian Anderson’s 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, she called Sol Hurok, her manager, to ask if she really had to go through with it.

adding that he would support a collaborative effort to plan a lasting monument for Marian Anderson and others. According to the mayor’s spokesperson, there is one permanent memorial, located ...

Marian Anderson, the opera singer whose 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance some say help launched the civil rights movement in the U.S., will appear on the redesigned $5 bill. Marian Anderson ...

A new documentary film on black opera singer Marian Anderson reintroduces her to a generation that may not remember the role she played in the country’s civil rights history – and provides an ...