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Award-winning civil protection under the law historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic account behind Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial - an early on milestone in civil protection under the law background - on the 70th anniversary of her performance. On Easter Weekend 1939, the outstanding vocalist Marian Anderson sang before a throng of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington - an electrifying minute and an underappreciated milestone in civil protection under the law background. Though she was at the peak of a stunning career, Anderson had been barred from doing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall because she was dark-colored. When Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in the incident and took up Anderson's cause, however, it became a countrywide issue. Just like a feminine Jackie Robinson - but many years before his breakthrough - Anderson rose to a pressure-filled and politically costed occasion with dignity and courage, and struck a essential blow for civil protection under the law. Inside the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King would follow, basically, in Anderson's footsteps. This firmly centered, richly textured narrative by acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault catches the have difficulty for racial equality in 1930s America, the peaceful heroism of Marian Anderson, and an instant that motivated blacks and whites similarly.
