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Sound of Freedom Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America

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ISBN-10: 1596915781

ISBN-13: 9781596915787

Edition: 2009

Authors: Raymond Arsenault

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Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorialan early milestone in civil rights historyon the seventieth anniversary of her performance. On Easter Sunday 1939, the brilliant vocalist Marian Anderson sang before a throng of seventy-five thousand at the Lincoln Memorial in Washingtonan electrifying moment and an underappreciated milestone in civil rights history. Though she was at the peak of a dazzling career, Anderson had been barred from performing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall because she was black. When Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR over the incident and…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English