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Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church

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Mosley, John W

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Marian Anderson was a talented singer and the first African American singer to perform at the White House and the first African American to sing with New York's Metropolitan Opera. In this photograph, Liberia honors Marian Anderson at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church; seated behind her is First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Temple University

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PA Digital

Keywords

  1. African American Icons
  2. African American Musicians
  3. African American Organizations
  4. African American Pioneers
  5. African American Singers
  6. African American Women
  7. African Americans
  8. Anderson, Marian, 1897 1993
  9. Awards
  10. Singers
  11. Women

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