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Marian Anderson born into a working class family in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Marian continues singing in her church choir.
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Started voice lessons with saprano Mary Saunders Anderson, which introduced her to public concerts. Between 1916-1918 studided under contralto Agnes Reifsnyder. Began solo proformances in 1917 and in 1919 she studied with Oscar Sanger at the Chicago Conservatory of Music.
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Furthered career.
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Recent graduate from South Philadelphia Highschool for Girls (1921) and also continues her private voice lessons with Giuseppe Boghetti.
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Entered a New York Philharmonic voice competition with over 300 competitors where she won first prize.
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Reputation was more established in Europe. Not well known in the US. Sang for president Roosevelt. First African American invited to sing at the White House.
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Easter Sunday Concert at the Lincoln Memorial, attended by 75,000 people; Millions more listened to the radio broadcast of this event.
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First African American to perform in at Metropolitan.
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Formalized role of goodwill ambassador. This picture is of a statue in Marians honor, located in Spartanburg, SC.
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Later in 1963 Marian recieved the Presidential Medal of Freedom from John F. Kennedy.
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extended farewell world tour (from 1964-1965)
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Won the United Nations Peace Prize. Gala concert at Carnegie Hall marking her 75th birthday; received New York City's Handel Medallion.
1978 - Honored for lifetime achievement by the Kennedy Center
1984 - Received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.
1986 - Husband Orpheus Fisher dies; Awarded National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts
1991- Grammy for Lifetime Achievemnet -
Dies at the age of 96 in Portland, Oregon.
