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Voice of the Century.(contralto Marian Anderson )
On Easter Sunday, 1939, the contralto Marian Anderson sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The Daughters of the American Revolution had refused to let her appear at Constitution Hall, Washington's largest concert venue, because of the color of her skin. In response, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the D.A.R., and President Roosevelt gave permission for a concert on the Mall. Seventy-five thousand people gathered to watch Anderson perform. Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior, introduced her with the words "In this great auditorium under the sky, all of us are free."
The impact was immediate and immense; one newsreel carried the legend "Nation's ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Jill Nelson April 9, 1989 700+ words
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