Marian Anderson Resources
ARCHIVES COLLECTIONS
The Marian Anderson Collection at Penn Libraries includes Anderson's personal papers--including letters, music scores, programs, photographs, and sound recordings--and affiliated materials, along with additional donations to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. All of these collections are housed in the Kislak Center.
https://www.library.upenn.edu/detail/collection/marian-anderson-collect…
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Marian Anderson’s historic Lincoln Memorial concert, the DAR is launching a project to create a subject guide on documents related to Marian Anderson found within the NSDAR Archives. This online gallery features a sampling of these documents, including new ones that have been uncovered in recent months during the processing of a new NSDAR Archives’ acquisition, the Sarah Robert Papers (DAR President General from 1938-1941).
www.dar.org/national-society/nsdar-archives-marian-anderson-documents-j…
The purpose of this resource guide is to aid in the study of the events and attitudes surrounding Marian Anderson’s historic Lincoln Memorial concert. It is the DAR’s desire that this resource guide compliments and expands upon other historical research related to the 1939 concert. Various collections within the NSDAR Archives contain valuable records about Marian Anderson’s association with the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The materials in this guide are arranged by collection and reflects the arrangement of the collections’ original finding aids. The Marian Anderson Archival Project is an ongoing effort and updates will be reflected in the Marian Anderson Resource Guide as any additions are made in the future.
www.dar.org/sites/default/files/MarianAndersonResourceGuide.pdf
Times Literary Supplement, July 17, 2020
Washington Post, April 9, 2019
Timeline, January 18, 2017
NPR, April 9, 2014
Smithsonian Magazine, April 9, 2014
Washington Area Spark, March 14, 2013
The New Yorker, April 13, 2009
A Refrain of Song and Citizenship
Washington Post, April 13, 2009
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 10, 2009 (Subscription Required)
New York Times, May 18, 1993 (Subscription Required)
Washingtonian, April 1989
HISTORIC PUBLICATIONS (1939) AND OTHER RESOURCES
Roulades and Cadenzas
Esquire, July 1939
Facts Concerning the Management of Constitution Hall Dating from 1929 to 1940
Constitution Hall Managing Director, Fred E. Hand
Art and the Color Line
An Appeal made May 31, 1939 to the President General and other officers of The Daughters of the American Revolution to modify their rules so as to permit distinguished Negro Artists such as Miss Marian Anderson to be heard in Constitution Hall, by Anson Phelps Stokes
Voice of Freedom: Turbulent Times Turned an Artist into a Hero
American Experience – February 15, 2021 – Website features include trailer, digital shorts, articles and audio
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
American Masters - February 8, 2022 - Watch on PBS
Marian Anderson and the Desegregation of the American Concert Stage
Carol J. Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard and the 2016–2017 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
Marian Anderson -1991 WETA Documentary
Marian Anderson -1991 WETA Documentary
Marian Anderson -1991 WETA Documentary
Article about 1991 WETA documentary: Marian Anderson's Voice of Conscience, Washington Post, May 3, 1991
National Marian Anderson Museum and Historical Society
The Marian Anderson Historical Residence Museum – Philadelphia, PA - National Register Of Historic Places