Marian Anderson #1688

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Marian Anderson

 

"Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find

it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the

feel of it is irritating."

 

 

Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American
contralto, best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939
on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Anderson was born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined a junior church choir at the age of
six, and applied to an all-white music school after her graduation from high 
school in 1921, but was turned away because she was black. The woman 
working the admissions counter replied, "We don't take colored" when she
tried to apply. Consequently, she continued her singing studies with a private
teacher. She debuted at the New York Philharmonic on August 26, 1925 and
scored an immediate success, also with the critics. In 1928, she sang for the
first time at Carnegie Hall.Her reputation was further advanced by her tour
through Europe in the early 1930s where she did not encounter certain racial
prejudices she had experienced in America.

 

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