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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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2009.
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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.