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 ...

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Marian Anderson in 1960, standing before a mural of her famous 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial. Photograph courtesy of Walter Sanders/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images *“Marian ...

Now, walk a few steps from the Corcoran Gallery in Washington and you arrive at The Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, which is famous for an event that was blocked from happening ...