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CBC Showcase: Celebrating National Women's History Month

cover The Voice that Challenged a Nation
Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

by Russell Freedman
Illustrated with 72 black-and-white archival photographs

2005 Sibert Informational Book Award
2005 Newbery Honor Book
2005 ALA Notable Children's Book
2005 A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults
2005 CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book


Award-winning nonfiction author Russell Freedman masterfully tells the story of contralto Marian Anderson, whose act of defiant courage helped to mark the end of segregation in the arts. When denied the right to sing inside Lincoln Memorial because she was African-American, Anderson came to stand for all black artists when, with the help of such prominent figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, she gave a landmark 1939 performance on the steps outside the Lincoln Memorial.

Ages AGES
ISBN: 0-618-15976-2
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Clarion Books

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