Washington Performing Arts presents Jessye Norman and others in Marian Anderson tribute

On Easter Sunday, 1939, Marian Anderson sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The concert lasted about half an hour, but the event was front-page news across the country, and more than 75,000 people from all over the States gathered on the Mall to hear it. It was the first time the Lincoln Memorial steps had been used as a place of peaceful protest. Anderson, a classically trained contralto, was singing there because she had been prohibited from singing at DAR Constitution Hall, because she...