On Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson ... “Pressed black and white taffeta dress and left at 8:10. … Full hall.” Anderson recalls being shocked the first time she heard her own voice ...

Marian Anderson, noted contralto ... she became the first African American to be invited to perform at the White House and then sang there again when Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were ...

“The alabaster white of the ... and etched in for Marian and her mother.” Although restoring the house has been a long, hard fight, Pirtle believes it was what Anderson herself would have ...

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 ...