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Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert is a film of genre Documentary released in USA on 31 december 1939
Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 31 december 1939
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Rating60%
Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert is a 1939 documentary film which documents a concert performance by African American opera singer Marian Anderson after the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) had her barred from singing in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Hall because she was black. Officials of the District of Columbia also barred her from performing in the auditorium of a white public high school. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt helped hold the concert at Lincoln Memorial, on federal property. The Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, performance was attended by 75,000. In 2001, this documentary film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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