Marian Anderson Research Paper

Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial

It was a bright, cold day in March. Suzie dragged her feet as we marched along the crooked sidewalks to my music lesson. She was my best friend, and we had always done everything together, ever since we were little babies. But Suzie didn’t care about singing. She just came along to be with me. I wanted to be a great singer like Miss Marian Anderson.

We were lucky to live in Washington, D.C. Miss Lauder was a great music teacher. She sometimes got free tickets to concerts. Suzie and I could not always go with her to the concerts because some of the concert halls didn’t let colored people in. But lots of the concerts were in churches, and anyone could go into a church.

Suzie and I always raced down the last block. She always won. We were

She said that many important people were fighting for Miss Anderson. She told us that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President’s wife, had written a letter telling the owners of the Hall that they were wrong. She showed us the letter in the paper. Mrs. Roosevelt called Miss Anderson “a great artist” and said that the owners of Constitution Hall had failed.

Suzie and I got excited. Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States. Somebody so important must be able to help Miss Anderson!

There were a lot of angry people in Washington that month. Every day Suzie and I heard something about Miss Anderson on the radio. We both thought it was really important that she be allowed to sing. In the end, we heard that she would sing at the Lincoln Memorial. Anyone could go to the concert. My parents talked about it over dinner. They promised we would go to hear Miss Anderson sing.

The concert was on Easter Sunday. After church, we went to the Memorial. Suzie came too. I’d never seen so many people in one place; there must have been thousands of them. Everybody was all dressed up, serious, and polite. It was cold for April. I huddled in my