By Eileen Travers Marian Anderson, one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century, performed at the United Nations ...

She was the first African American to perform on the main stage at the Metropolitan Opera, the first African American artist ...

The Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall will be renamed in honor of legendary vocalist Marian Anderson, a classical and spiritual music vocalist known for crossing racial and artistic boundaries.

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...