The sound of freedom : Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America /

From the Publisher: Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial-an early milestone in civil rights history-on the seventieth anniversary of her performance. On Easter Sunday 1939, the brilliant vocalist...

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Main Author: Arsenault, Raymond
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: October 1964
  • 1: Freedom's child
  • 2: Singing in the dark
  • 3: Deep rivers
  • 4: Heart of a nation
  • 5: Sweet land of liberty
  • Epilogue: American icon, 1943-93
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.