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 ...

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 ...

Marian Anderson, noted contralto, sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at the dedication of a mural commemorating her free public concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939.

On Easter Sunday 1939, the brilliant vocalist Marian Anderson sang before a throng of seventy-five thousand at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington-an electrifying moment and an under appreciated ...

Anderson sang the National Anthem at President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration. Her most notable performance took place on Easter Sunday in 1939, when she sang on the steps of the Lincoln ...

On April 9, 1939, the 42-year-old American contralto and international star Marian Anderson walked onto a temporary stage on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and began to sing.

“One Life: Marian Anderson” shifts the attention from Anderson’s historic 1939 performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to underexplored moments in the contralto’s career.

The National Mall and Memorial Parks is conducting its annual tradition of commemorating Marian Anderson’s “seminal” concert at the Lincoln Memorial this Easter, with this year’s holiday ...