Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt ... The success she encountered in Europe brought her back to America in 1935 for a public debut at Carnegie Hall in New ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27 ... The affair generated great sympathy for Anderson and became a defining moment in America's civil rights movement.

On Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson, wrapped in a fur coat against the April chill, stepped to the microphone atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and launched into “America (My Country ...

Five years after a burst pipe destroyed much of the late singer Marian Anderson's former Philadelphia home, her home has been restored and reopened. The museum highlights the life of Philadelphia ...