DANBURY — The Danbury Museum & Historical Society is celebrating the birthday of Marian Anderson, the legendary African American contralto and civil rights figure. Anderson, who lived much of her life ...

Penn Museum will commemorate civil rights figure and opera singer Marian Anderson throughout Black History Month. Credit: Navraj Singh The Penn Museum will honor 20th-century civil rights figure and ...

Marian Anderson was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the ...

In honor of Black History Month, the Penn Museum and the National Marian Anderson Museum & Historical Society are presenting public programs to honor the life and work of the groundbreaking contralto ...

You can read this quote by Marian Anderson, from her autobiography My Lord, What a Morning (1956), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Suggested Reading ...

Marian Anderson looms large in history not only for her achievements in classical music, but also for the strides she made for Black artists in the mid-twentieth century. Since her career took off in ...