Seventy-Five Thousand Witnesses
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. The Daughters of...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 98.
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. The Daughters of the American Revolution had barred her from Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin. But Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her DAR membership in protest, and the Department of the Interior offered the National Mall instead.…
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