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...Marian Anderson, contralto--Doctor of Music...
...other degree recipients are Albert H. Gordon '23, chairman of Kidder Peabody and Co., Inc., a New York stock brokerage firm; Richard W. Southern, medieval scholar and president of St. John's College, Oxford, England; Eudora Welty, novelist and short story writer; and Marian Anderson, contralto...
Perhaps better known to the generation that matured during the '50s than to the one coming of age now, Marian Anderson was at one time one of the world's best-loved contraltos...
...first black artists to achieve such international recognition, Anderson, whose repertory ranges from Bach to spirituals, took a strong stand against the segregationist laws that were still in effect until the mid-1960s...
...most famous incident dramatizing her political as well as artistic position came in 1939, when her manager was refused booking at the Constitutional Hall in Washington, D.C., because of Anderson's race...