This coming Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of contralto Marian Anderson, one of this country's greatest singers, who died in 1993. In 1939, Anderson was not allowed to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall because she was African-American. An outraged Eleanor Roosevelt arranged for Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial in an outdoor concert that became a landmark in African-American cultural history. We reprise a 1989 segment on that concert that was produced by the late Robert Montiegel.
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