Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Renovations have been completed to the historic home of opera singer Marian Anderson, who made ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

Jordan Harris, City Council President Kenyatta Johnson, and Jillian Patricia Pirtle participate in the ribbon cutting of the The Marian Anderson Historical Society & Museum in South Philadelphia.

Five years ago, a burst pipe soaked much of the late singer Marian Anderson's former Philadelphia home, today a museum dedicated to her artistic and civil rights legacy. Gowns, sheets of music and ...