Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert

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The 90-second newsreel report of Anderson's concert, as distributed in 1939.

Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert is a 1939

Constitution Hall because she was Black. Officials of the District of Columbia also barred her from performing in the auditorium of a white public high school. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt helped hold the concert at Lincoln Memorial, on federal property.[1] The performance on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, was attended by 75,000.[2] In 2001, this documentary film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress
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Notes

  1. ^ Raymond Arsenault, The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America (2009).
  2. NARA
    . 1939-02-26. Retrieved 2006-10-08.

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