Marian Anderson (1897-1993) African American contralto singing at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, Easter Sunday, 1939. PBS aired “Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands,” a ...

Anderson’s concert, performed in 1939, was conducted outside the Lincoln Memorial after the singer was denied access to perform at Constitution Hall, as Jim Crow laws were still in use within ...

The Lincoln Memorial has held some of the most important cultural moments of the last 200 years - like when singer Marian Anderson, denied a stage due to her race, was offered to play at the memorial.

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 ...

Marian Anderson statue will make history as first Philly monument to a Black woman Famed opera singer Marian Anderson will soon be immortalized with a statue outside of the Academy of Music.

Program pamphlet of Marian Anderson's performance at Milwaukee Auditorium on March 28, 1944. The voice of Marian Anderson performing at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was heard on Easter ...