- Headline
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Effort To Boycott Anderson Concert In Memphis Fails As 3000 Storm Auditorium And Pay $5000 To Hear Great Contralto
- Sub-Headline
- Three Years Ago, City Where Many Prominent DAR Members Reside, Said 'No Negro Singer Is Worth $1000' - Latest Triumph Has Daily Critics Raving
- Publication Date
- Sunday, April 9, 1939
- Historical Event
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Marian Anderson Performs at the Lincoln Memorial
This database includes 945 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 23
- Author/Byline
- John R. Williams
- History Unfolded Contributor
- Rusty L.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
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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