Marian Anderson: Timeline

1897   Born

1939   Singer Marian Anderson performs before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial Lincoln Memorial

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 in Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.

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 after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution and of a public high school by the federally-controlled District of Columbia.

1955   Marian Anderson is the first African American African American

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 singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City New York City

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1993   Died