Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson ... needed after her father's death in 1911. She continued to give concerts while she attended the South Philadelphia High School for Girls ...

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 ...