Marian Anderson first found her voice in the choir ... crowds who watched her perform—“Marian Fever,” a Swedish newspaper called it. She toured widely through Russia and Eastern Europe ...

What we know The Marian Anderson Historical Residence Museum ... Gowns, sheets of music and newspaper clippings were damaged in the flood and some artifacts were too far gone to be recovered.

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 ...

Philadelphia native and contralto Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.