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Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial Concert

Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial Concert (084.00.00)

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On April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson, with NAACP support, performed an Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial broadcast nationally by radio. The integrated audience of 75,000, including members of the Supreme Court, Congress, and President Roosevelt’s cabinet, extended to the base of the Washington Monument. The scene, which symbolically united the martyred Civil War-era president with the struggle for black equality, would be restaged and exalted by the 1963 March on Washington.
On April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson, with NAACP support, performed an Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial broadcast nationally by radio. The integrated audience of 75,000, including members of the Supreme Court, Congress, and President Roosevelt’s cabinet, extended to the base of the Washington Monument. The scene, which symbolically united the martyred Civil War-era president with the struggle for black equality, would be restaged and exalted by the 1963 March on Washington.