• Thumbnail for Marian Anderson
    Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson...
    63 KB (6,638 words) - 22:41, 26 April 2024
  • Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert is a 1939 documentary film that documents a concert performance by African American opera singer Marian...
    2 KB (153 words) - 22:37, 24 November 2023
  • The Marian Anderson Award was originally established in 1943 by African American singer Marian Anderson after she was awarded the $10,000 Bok Prize that...
    4 KB (387 words) - 02:23, 11 April 2024
  • Marian Anderson (born Marian Jennifer Holloway, August 13, 1968 – November 4, 2001) was an American punk rock singer in the San Francisco Bay Area of California...
    8 KB (908 words) - 03:05, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marian Anderson House
    The Marian Anderson House is a historic home located in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built circa 1870 in the...
    6 KB (527 words) - 03:56, 15 October 2023
  • Marion or Marian Anderson may refer to: Marion T. Anderson (1839–1904), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient Marian Anderson (1897–1993), American...
    555 bytes (93 words) - 11:07, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kool & the Gang
    Award for Outstanding Achievement, the Soul Train Legend Award, the Marian Anderson Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well. In 2007, the...
    56 KB (5,002 words) - 21:01, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danbury Museum and Historical Society
    the 1790 John Dodd Hat Shop, the Little Red Schoolhouse, and the Marian Anderson Studio. The Museum also operates a sixth building: the Charles Ives...
    6 KB (806 words) - 19:53, 22 February 2024
  • Hall, is parallel to Humphries Hall and diagonal from Burleigh Hall. Marian Anderson Music Center (1970) is named for the internationally famous contralto...
    26 KB (2,758 words) - 14:17, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cardozo Education Campus
    Education, Superintendent Frank Ballou denied a request by contralto Marian Anderson to sing at the auditorium of the segregated white Central High School...
    20 KB (1,729 words) - 11:15, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laurie Anderson
    Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music...
    68 KB (6,256 words) - 13:44, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Earl Jones
    received an Honorary Academy Award on November 12, 2011. He was the 2012 Marian Anderson Award Recipient. Jones won the 2014 Voice Icon Award sponsored by Society...
    75 KB (6,678 words) - 09:53, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sarah Corbin Robert
    the use of DAR Constitution Hall to the famous black contralto Marian Anderson. Anderson was singing as part of a concert series in Washington being organized...
    9 KB (825 words) - 23:00, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sol Hurok
    career, S. Hurok Presents managed many performing artists, including Marian Anderson, Irina Arkhipova, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Grace Bumbry, Feodor Chaliapin...
    14 KB (1,192 words) - 09:02, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for University of the Arts (Philadelphia)
    1921, after graduating from South Philadelphia High School, contralto Marian Anderson applied to the Philadelphia Musical Academy but was turned away because...
    19 KB (1,845 words) - 12:56, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kathleen Ferrier
    conducting. At the rehearsals Ferrier met the renowned American contralto Marian Anderson, who reportedly said of her English counterpart: "My God, what a voice—and...
    51 KB (6,538 words) - 21:35, 25 April 2024
  • Columbia State Board of Education, Ballou denied a request by contralto Marian Anderson to sing at the auditorium of the segregated white Central High School...
    54 KB (4,107 words) - 19:52, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marian Wright Edelman
    Marian Wright Edelman (née Wright; born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for civil rights and children's rights. She is the founder and president...
    23 KB (2,027 words) - 18:19, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marian (given name)
    Marius. Marian Anderson (1897–1993), African-American contralto opera singer Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg (born 1965), Dutch scientist Marian Beitialarrangoitia...
    5 KB (534 words) - 20:30, 8 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for My Country, 'Tis of Thee
    to the original version. Marian Anderson performed the song at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939. Anderson, an African American singer...
    9 KB (917 words) - 15:29, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ann Wilson
    King Cole Miles Davis Vladimir Horowitz Paul McCartney 1991–2000 1991 Marian Anderson Bob Dylan John Lennon Kitty Wells 1992 James Brown John Coltrane Jimi...
    27 KB (2,431 words) - 13:28, 26 April 2024
  • Marc Anderson, American percussionist Marcia M. Anderson, first African-American woman to attain major general in the US Army Reserve Marian Anderson (1897–1993)...
    37 KB (4,315 words) - 14:34, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ella Fitzgerald
    King Cole Miles Davis Vladimir Horowitz Paul McCartney 1991–2000 1991 Marian Anderson Bob Dylan John Lennon Kitty Wells 1992 James Brown John Coltrane Jimi...
    63 KB (7,021 words) - 00:03, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helen Keller
    1994 Mary Jobe Akeley Anni Albers Marian Anderson Beatrice Fox Auerbach Emma Fielding Baker Evelyn Longman Batchelder Catharine Beecher Jody Cohen Prudence...
    69 KB (6,791 words) - 00:40, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eleanor Roosevelt
    issue in Franklin's 1936 re-election campaign. When the Black singer Marian Anderson was denied the use of Washington's Constitution Hall by the Daughters...
    154 KB (17,649 words) - 08:42, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States five-dollar bill
    1963 speech "I Have a Dream" and the 1939 concert by opera singer Marian Anderson. As of January 2021[update], the Treasury has continued work on the...
    28 KB (2,492 words) - 17:57, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for J'Nai Bridges
    Grammy-Award winning American mezzo-soprano. She is a winner of the Marian Anderson Award and has performed for the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National...
    10 KB (827 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2024
  • recorded by many other singers and choirs, including Mahalia Jackson, Marian Anderson, Judy Garland and Nina Simone. The song was first published in the...
    13 KB (1,445 words) - 20:34, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
    by artists such as Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Paul Robeson, and Sam Cooke among others. Anderson had her first successful...
    11 KB (1,578 words) - 14:22, 4 February 2024
  • Columbia State Board of Education, Ballou denied a request by contralto Marian Anderson to sing at the auditorium of the segregated white Central High School...
    7 KB (659 words) - 21:51, 10 February 2024