Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27 ... Roosevelt ultimately intervened and facilitated Anderson's Easter Sunday outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939—an event ...

Marian Anderson first found her voice in the ... with a delicate mastery of opera and gospel alike: At the 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert, she performed “Ave Maria” alongside “Nobody Knows ...

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.

Five years ago, a burst pipe soaked much of the late singer Marian Anderson's former ... hastily scheduled 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Because she was Black, she was denied ...