Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt ... with her floor-length gown covering the cast on her ankle. Again, she met with success. It won her so much exposure 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 ...