Headline

DAR Keeps Ban on Marian Anderson

Sub-Headline
Vote Upholds Stand Taken by Directors; Organization Does Not Want Race Members In Its Building
Publication Date
Saturday, February 11, 1939
Historical Event
Marian Anderson Performs at the Lincoln Memorial
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Tags
Black press
Racism and Antisemitism in America
Women's Experiences
Article Type
News Article
Newspaper
The Chicago Defender
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Page Section and Number
1
Author/Byline
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History Unfolded Contributor
Sandra A.
Location of Research
New York Public Library

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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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