Voice That Challenged a Nation A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Name: Voice That Challenged a Nation A Newbery Honor Award Winner
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ISBN: 9780618159765

ISBN-10: 0618159762

ISBN-13: 9780618159765

Edition: 2004 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Russell Freedman

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"A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, "is heard once in a hundred years." This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing on Anderson's own writings and other contemporary accounts, Russell Freedman shows readers a singer pursuing her art despite the social constraints that limited the careers of black performers in the 1920s and 1930s. Though not a crusader or a spokesperson by nature, Marian Anderson came to stand for all black artists-and for all Americans of color-when, with the help of such prominent figures as…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/25/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Russell Freedman is the award-winning author of numerous books. His nonfiction books range in subject from the lives and behaviors of animals to people in history whose impact is still felt today. Freeedman's work has earned him several awards, including a Newbery Medal in 1994 for Lincoln: a Photobiography, a Newbery Honor each for Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery in 1994 and The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane in 1992, and a Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal.




Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939



Twenty-five Cents a Song



A Voice in a Thousand



Marian Fever



Banned by the DAR



Singing to the Nation



Breaking Barriers



"What I Had Was Singing"


Chapter Notes


Selected Bibliography


Selected Discography


Acknowledgments and Picture Credits


Index