She was the first African American to perform on the main stage at the Metropolitan Opera, the first African American artist ...

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 ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8 ... Because she was Black, however, her initial prospects as a concert singer in this country were sharply limited, and her ...

Center City's most prominent concert hall will soon be named after the famed civil rights icon and singer Marian Anderson. Why it matters: Philly woefully lacks monuments and prominent namings ...

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) FILE – Singer Marian Anderson smiles at the Pierre Hotel in New York, Nov. 28, 1979. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File) FILE – Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, ...