Nazis and D.A.R. Called Stablemates by Adams

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.