or the Easter Sunday concert by Marian Anderson in 1939. The Black contralto was barred from singing in Constitution Hall, and instead was invited to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict the fight for civil rights.

At Eisenhower’s second inauguration ceremony in 1961, Marian Anderson was the first African ... for President Bill Clinton in 1993 at the Lincoln Memorial. His powerful and poetic lyrics ...

The March on Washington in 1963, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, featured live performances by Peter, Paul and Mary, Harry Belafonte, Marian Anderson, Mahalia Jackson ...

In 1939 Marian Anderson was barred from a concert in the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. In what would become an enduring image in the struggle for racial justice, Anderson instead sang on ...

Many musicians, including Marian Anderson, Mahalia Jackson ... MLK loved music and he believed in its powers. And that day on the Lincoln Memorial steps, music was his metaphor as he spoke of what he ...

Ms. Anderson was one of two soloists. She was the narrator in Aaron Copland’s composition Lincoln Portrait, and Lazar Berman, the Soviet pianist, performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.