Marian Anderson
by Saundra Johnson
Title
Marian Anderson
Artist
Saundra Johnson
Medium
Painting - Gouache On Paper
Description
Internationally acclaimed soprano, Anderson was the first Black singer to sing at the White House. She was denied the opportunity to sing at the Constitution Hall in Washington, DC by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her race, causing First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to resign from the organization in protest. On Easter Sunday 1939, the Roosevelts invited Anderson to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a concert in which 75,000 people attended. Four years later the DAR invited her to sing at Constitution Hall. She became the first Black singer to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1955 and sang at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
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February 8th, 2021
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