Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A gifted contralto, she was entered in the New York Philharmonic Competition at age 17 and placed first among 300 singers. In 1930, she was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship, which allowed her to study in Europe, where she gained international acclaim. Anderson would later become a symbol of the struggle for civil rights, famously performing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being denied the use of Constitution Hall due to her race.
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