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2) The sound of freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial--an early milestone in civil rights history--on the seventieth anniversary of her performance. On Easter Sunday, 1939, the brilliant vocalist Marian Anderson sang before a throng of seventy-five thousand at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington--an electrifying moment and an under-appreciated milestone...