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The Voice That Challenged a Nation : : Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

Freedman, Russell. Book - 2004 R Newbery Honor 2005 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 -- Twenty-five cents a song -- A voice in a thousand -- Marian fever -- Banned by the DAR -- Singing to the nation -- Breaking barriers -- "What I had was singing."
In the mid-1930s, Marian Anderson was a famed vocalist who had been applauded by European royalty and welcomed at the White House. But, because of her race, she was denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. This is the story of her resulting involvement in the civil rights movement of the time.

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Newbery Honor book - 2005.



PUBLISHED
New York : Clarion Books, c2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 114 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1180

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0618159762 :

SUBJECTS
Anderson, Marian, -- 1897-1993.
Contraltos -- Biography.
African American singers -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Singers.
African Americans -- Biography.
Women -- Biography.