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 ...

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 ...

Five years ago, a burst pipe soaked much of the late singer Marian Anderson's former Philadelphia home, today a museum dedicated to her artistic and civil rights legacy. Gowns, sheets of music and ...