Marian Anderson, one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century, once performed in the UN's gilded General Assembly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.