First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ultimately intervened and facilitated Anderson's Easter Sunday outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939—an event witnessed by 75,000 and broadcast to a ...

Marian Anderson, noted contralto, sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at the dedication of a mural commemorating her free public concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939.

SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE BLOCKS TO PARTICIPATE HERE AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT SCIENCE MATTERS. NIH RESEARCH REALLY DID SAVE MY LIFE.

A memorial Mass ... then 10-year-old brother, Lincoln, and 14-year-old brother Rafael, were living in Madrid. They managed to ...