[Folk Music]

- In the summer of 1919, Marian
Anderson traveled to Chicago

for a six week opera course.
She's coming from Philadelphia

to Chicago, during a time
of unrest in the city.

- What you have is a growing
Black population and there's

tensions between
the Black population

and the white population. -
An African American young man

had floated in the
lake to the wrong side.

They threw a rock and
hit him, and he died.

It was a race riot. - When
she sang "The Crucifixion"

in the 1950s, you could hear
the memories of the South

and the riots of 1919.

♪ They crucified ♪

♪ my Lord ♪

♪ And he never said ♪

♪ a mumblin' word ♪

♪ They crucified ♪

♪ my Lord ♪

♪ And he never said ♪

♪ a mumblin' word ♪

♪ Not a word ♪

♪ Not a word ♪

♪ He bowed his head ♪

♪ and died ♪

♪ And he never said ♪

♪ a mumblin' word ♪

♪ Not a word ♪

♪ Not a word ♪

♪ Not a word ♪

(piano music)