New Hampshire Public Radio

From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a studio in Danbury, CT, Marian Anderson kept singing

Decades before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream Speech” at the Lincoln Memorial, Marian Anderson stood on the same steps and sang for an audience of 75,000 after being denied the chance ...
WSHU

Journey alongside trailblazing American women

This week in America 250 The American Experience we journey alongside trailblazing women, including renowned vocalist Marian Anderson, who defied racial prejudice with her historic performance on the ...
Berkshire Eagle

'Relentless positive action.' Marian Anderson remembered in song at Martin Luther King Concert

This story was updated on Jan. 23 to correct where Amelia Coco Gilardi attends high school. LENOX — Unearthing “The Marian Anderson Album of Songs and Spirituals” inspired Andrea Goodman to devote an ...
insider.si.edu

The sound of freedom : Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America / Raymond Arsenault

Prologue: October 1964 -- 1: Freedom's child -- 2: Singing in the dark -- 3: Deep rivers -- 4: Heart of a nation -- 5: Sweet land of liberty -- Epilogue: American icon, 1943-93 -- Acknowledgments -- ...