On April 9, 1939, legendary African-American contralto Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial, a concert that was arranged after Daughters of the American Revolution organizers refused to let her perform at Washington’s Constitution Hall. This newsreel from the UCLA Film & Television Archive‘s Hearst Metrotone News Collection captures the...
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