Marian Anderson (Feb. 27, 1897-April 8, 1993) was a pioneer in more than just music; she served as a United Nations Human Rights Committee goodwill ambassador by giving concerts worldwide, and she was active in the civil rights movement. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her membership in the Daughters of the Revolution when the DAR refused to let Anderson perform in their Constitution Hall in 1939. Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial instead, for an audience of 75,000.
Her early career in the U.S. was thwarted by segregationist policies that kept her from performing in many venues, and she ended up going to Europe, where she sang to enthusiastic audiences and began collaboration efforts with such noted musicians and composers as Jean Sibelius.
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