Marian Anderson grew up in this house on Martin Street in South Philadelphia. She became the first Black artist to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (1955). Before that, in 1939, the DAR refused to let her perform at Constitution Hall in Washington because of her race, and Eleanor Roosevelt arranged for her to sing instead on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to 75,000 people. The museum preserves her story in the house where it began.
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