In one of the last days of Black History Month, we celebrate the birthday of the great singer African-American singer Marian Anderson. She was born in Philadelphia on February 27th, 1897. Marian Anderson became the first African-American singer to perform as part of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1955. After Anderson was refused the opportunity to sing at Constitution Hall because of racial prejudice, she instead performed an open-air on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939. She was an activist for Civil Rights in the 1960s, and in 1963 she sang at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
You and your class can watch a YouTube video of Marian singing at the Lincoln Memorial by clicking on the image below:
Your class can enjoy learning more about other great African-Americans from history in my collection of original readers Famous African-Americans in U.S. History: Leveled Books for Grades 1 – 3.
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