Headline

Negro Singer Makes Debut

Sub-Headline
75,000 Hear Concert Banned By D.A.R.
Publication Date
Monday, April 10, 1939
Historical Event
Marian Anderson Performs at the Lincoln Memorial
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Article Type
News Article
Newspaper
Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada
Page Section and Number
8
Author/Byline
UP
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Steven B.
Location of Research
Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)

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Bibliography

Arsenault, Raymond. The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America. Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

Black, Allida. “Championing a Champion: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Marian Anderson ‘Freedom Concert’.”Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1990), 719736.    

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