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 ...

The opera singer was most famous for her 1939 concert ... Louie Armstrong and more broke bread with Marian Anderson at her invitation," Pirtle said. "Because during the times of Jim Crow and ...

(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, ...

The Marian Anderson Studio is a practice space that Marian Anderson's husband, Orpheus King Fisher, built for her, and it is the place that she would practice her art when she was living in Danbury.