Format: Hardcover

Published: Houghton Mifflin, 2004

By the mid-1930s, Marian Anderson had toured the United States and Europe, performed for heads of state, and been named "one of the great singers of our time." But as an African American, she was not permitted to perform at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.'s finest concert hall. Organized with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt, Anderson's free concert in 1936 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial stands as a landmark moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Freedman?s eloquent text and numerous archival photographs tell the tale.