Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

Marian Anderson, celebrated contralto; 1942, Courtesy: Library of Congress As a small child, Mary Jane McLeod would routinely accompany her mother to deliver the "white people's" wash. Allowed ...

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

Singer Marian Anderson, a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, appears in her New York apartment on Aug. 5, 1958. The Philadelphia Orchestra’s home is being renamed Marian ...

A teary voter tours the People’s House and tries to find perspective in the relics of the “Honest and Wise Men” who came ...

JOHNSON Marian Jane, Johnson, Marian Jane (Anderson) was called to her Heavenly ... at the annual North Oaks Rummage Sale benefitting Children’s Minnesota. Marian eagerly opened her home to ...

Karwai Tang/WireImage Gillian Anderson is known for acting in The X-Files and The Crown, but her most important role is being a mom of three to her children: Piper, Oscar and Felix. The Scoop ...

Marian Joyce Rice, our family rock and matriarch, left this world on Oct. 15, 2024, to join our Lord and Savior. She is ...

Teachers put significant effort into building up after-school opportunities for children ... Massare said. At Marian Anderson ...

Yet unlike some other uncanny voices of the 20th century—think the sopranos Maria Callas and Leontyne Price, the contraltos ...