Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial
1939 · Event
Barred from Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because she is Black, Anderson sings on Easter Sunday to 75,000 people — after Eleanor Roosevelt resigns from the DAR in protest.
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