Philadelphia native and contralto Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27 ... First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ultimately intervened and facilitated Anderson's Easter Sunday outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial on April ...

Marian Anderson, noted contralto, sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at the dedication of a mural commemorating her free public concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939.

The Marian Anderson Museum recently reopened its doors after more than four years of rebuilding and renovations and there's a ...

On Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson, wrapped in a fur coat against the April chill, stepped to the microphone atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ... she would sing when the town lit up ...

Five years ago, a burst pipe soaked much of the late singer Marian ... Anderson is perhaps best known for her famous, hastily scheduled 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

"Seeing Marian ... to perform at the memorial. The concert was attended by 75,000 people, more than the capacity of Lincoln Financial Field. Decades later she would sing at the March on Washington.