This Week in Black History

This Week in Black History, April 9, 1939

African-American singer Marian Anderson performs on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. before an integrated crowd estimated at 75,000 after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

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