Video: '"Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial" Newreel Story'

(Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, 5:00-5:30 p.m. EST, during the Civil rights movement (1896–1954)) — Singer Marian Anderson performed an open air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to 75,000 people today after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because she was black.

Video: 'Marian Anderson Sings at Lincoln Memorial'