Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial
Witness History: Archive 2014 - A podcast by BBC World Service
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The great American contralto, Maria Anderson, sang outdoors to a vast crowd in Washington DC on 9 April, 1939. She had been barred by one of the city's main concert halls because she was black.(Photo: Marian Anderson. Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
