Marian Anderson was an opera singer. A contralto, she sang both opera and spirituals, beginning her concert career in 1924 and at first concentrating on Europe. In 1939, she became a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement when she was banned by the Daughters of the American Revolution from singing in ~Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. The First Lady, %Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned from the DAR in protest and arranged for Anderson to sing at ~the Lincoln Memorial instead. Anderson made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1955 and became a permanent member of the company.
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