"Seeing Marian Anderson's artifacts flooding in 3.5 feet of flood water and debris was so heart-breaking. It made me saddened but determined to make sure that everything that I could do ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

Jordan Harris, City Council President Kenyatta Johnson, and Jillian Patricia Pirtle participate in the ribbon cutting of the The Marian Anderson Historical Society & Museum in South Philadelphia.