Marian Anderson’s Historic Concert at the Lincoln Memorial | Voice of Freedom

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Marian Anderson Marian Anderson concert 1939 Negro spirituals African-American spirituals segregation discrimination horizontal segregation vertical segregation institutional racism Howard University Constitution Hall Lincoln Memorial Washington D.C. Daughters of the American Revolution DAR voice of the century performance venues Martin Luther King Jr. racial activism Jim Crow Voice of Freedom American Experience AMEX GBH WGBH United States U.S. History Collection U.S. history us history history social studies American history ushist22
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History-Social Science The Arts
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Marian Anderson’s Historic Concert at the Lincoln Memorial | Voice of Freedom

Learn how famed singer Marian Anderson was barred from singing at Constitution Hall in 1939, despite being dubbed the “Voice of the Century,” because of her race in these clips adapted from Voice of Freedom| AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Her performance at an alternate venue, the Lincoln Memorial, was attended by tens of thousands and represented the struggle for racial equality in the United States.
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