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...grade: The careers of Negro notables such as Contralto Marian Anderson, Bass-Baritone Paul Robeson...
...says the WAVES aren't a "fighting and sea-going crew" (as per our favorite marching song)?. Ask the unlucky second baseman of the NSCS faculty team why he is going around with a sling and a splint. Battle-scarred also is Miss Marian Read, who literally overcame all obstacles to become "safe at second" by the decision of a right good ump at the bases, Lt. Comdr. Hesser, Executive Officer of the School...
...first night of the ban, Eleanor Roosevelt drove three blocks in a White House car to hear Negro Contralto Marian Anderson at the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall. Three days later, unable to wait any longer in the Union Station for Daughter Anna Boettiger and Son-in-Law John (whose train was late) she walked the mile and a half back to the White House with a soldier she had met in the USO lounge...
Contralto Marian Anderson finally scored her triumph over the Daughters of the American Revolution. After four years of brush-offs she sang in Washington's Constitution Hall, to the first nonsegregated audience in the hall's history. From 30 to 40% of her 3,844 listeners were Negroes, who sat among Washington's social and political bigwigs, occupied at least 13 of the 52 boxes. "I'm so thrilled," said the singer, "I don't know how I feel...
...round in the three-year-old fencing match between the D.A.R. and colored Contralto Marian Anderson, the D.A.R.ters who had finally asked her to sing in Washington's Constitution Hall got an acceptance with provisos: that there be no audience segregation, that she be allowed to sing there again sometime. So the D.A.R.ters withdrew the invitation. Then Marian Anderson accepted anyway. But Sol Hurok, her publicity-wise manager, would not let the quarrel lapse. Said he: "Since the executive committee has not referred in its letter to the matter of segregation . . . Miss Anderson understands that this is no barrier...