Marian Anderson and Frida Kahlo with Diego Rivera, Miguel Covarrubias, Rosa Covarrubias, Ernesto de Quesada and others in Mexico, 1943.
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Marian Anderson, singing during an Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939. The concert was broadcast on the radio across the nation and the integrated audience of 75,000 including members of the Supreme Court, Congress, and President Roosevelt’s cabinet. The concert was organized after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow Ms. Anderson to sing to an integrated audience at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. solely because of her race. Photo via The Library of Congress.
Opera legend Marian Anderson singing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday 1939. When the Daughters of the Revolution barred her from singing at Constitution Hall, she sang on the steps of the memorial instead. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from DAR in protest over their “whites only” policy for the hall and for their treatment of Ms. Anderson.
