- Headline
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Negro Singer Barred
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, March 18, 1936
- Historical Event
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Marian Anderson Performs at the Lincoln Memorial
This database includes 945 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- UP
- Article Text
- WASHINGTON, March 17 — (U.P.) Superintendent Frank W. Ballou of the District of Columbia school system Friday night denied the use of a high school auditorium Marian Anderson, negro contralto, for a concert Easter Sunday.
Ballou's action climaxed a fight during which the school board first denied permission to the noted singer.[sic] and then reversed itself when thousands of protests were made. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Patricia P.
- Location of Research
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Learn More about this Historical Event: Marian Anderson Performs at the Lincoln Memorial
- Marian Anderson and the Easter Sunday Concert, April 9, 1939 (National Archives and Records Administration, Rediscovering Black History)
- File copy of letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to president general of the DAR. (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
- February 26, 1939 - Eleanor Roosevelt Resigns from the Daughters of the American Revolution (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)
- Marian Anderson Performs on the National Mall (National Geographic Society)
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), 719–736.
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