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Marion Anderson
Ms. Anderson was born on February 27, 1897. Most of her singing career was spent performing in concert and recital in major music venues and with famous orchestras throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Ms Anderson was offered roles in European opera companies, but she decline the offers due to lack of training in acting. Ms. Anderson made many recordings that reflected her performance repertoire of everything from concert literature to lieder to opera to traditional American songs and spirituals songs.
Ms. Anderson became an important figure in the struggle for black artists to overcome racial e prejudice in the United States. On April 9, 1939, with the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and President Roosevelt Ms. Anderson performed an open-air concert on Easter Sunday on the steps of Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Ms. Anderson participated in the civil rights movement in the 60s singing at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. She received several awards and performed for President John F. Kennedy.
Ms. Anderson past away on April 8, 1993
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