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 ...

Marian Anderson did perform – at the White House, at Mrs. Roosevelt’s invitation. Civil Rights Movement brings changes to White House As the Civil Rights Movement became a national force in ...

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 ...