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9 de abr. de 2019 · Eighty years ago Tuesday, 75,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to hear contralto singer Marian Anderson. Multiple venues had refused to let her perform because she was black.
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Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert is a 1939 documentary film that documents a concert performance by African American opera singer Marian Anderson after the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) had her barred from singing in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Hall because she was Black.
3 de feb. de 2021 · Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone placed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and stared out at a crowd of more than 75,000 people. She had been barred from performing at Constitutional...
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- American Experience | PBS
13 de nov. de 2009 · Her performance at the Lincoln Memorial made a compelling case for the transformative power of music, and in a place typically associated with the power of words.
9 de abr. de 2014 · Seventy-five years ago, Marian Anderson made history when she sang to crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. The Daughters of the American Revolution had denied her the use of...
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- Susan Stamberg
26 de mar. de 2010 · Marian Anderson, contralto, was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall by the DAR because of her color. Instead, and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ickes permitted her to...
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The jacket and skirt that Marian Anderson wore to her 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial were altered in early 1993 for wear to the Philadelphia Orchestra's Academy of Music Ball.
