Marian Anderson Sings On<\/strong><\/p>\nBack in the day on April 9th, 1939, African-American singer Marian Anderson performed before 75,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The open-air event was not originally on Anderson\u2019s schedule of appearances, but, instead, was organized after she was denied from singing at Washington D.C.\u2019s Constitution Hall. The singer\u2019s manager, Sol Hurok, had sought to book Anderson at the large venue, as her audience was growing ever larger. The Daughters of the American Revolution, who managed Constitution Hall, found out that Anderson was black, and refused to allow the show to happen. Shock and outrage followed. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the organization and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes was persuaded to invite Anderson to perform at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday. <\/p>\n
Broadcast before millions, the singer subtlely changed the lyrics of \u2018My Country \u2018Tis of Thee\u2019 from \u2018I sing,\u201d to \u201cWe sing,\u201d in acknowledging the diverse gathering\u2019s triumph over petty racism.<\/p>\n
For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"| the entire program Marian Anderson Sings On Back in the day on April 9th, 1939, African-American singer Marian Anderson performed before 75,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The open-air event was not originally on Anderson\u2019s schedule of appearances, but, instead, was organized after she was denied from singing at Washington D.C.\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a> Marian Anderson Sings On<\/strong><\/p>\n