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(audience applauding)

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- She was the first
African American

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to make her debut at
the Metropolitan Opera.

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- She was pursued by
nobility and aristocracy.

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She enjoyed the life of a diva.

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(Marian Anderson
singing "Ave Maria")

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- Marian Anderson was the first

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African American artist to
be signed by RCA Victor.

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- She was performing
in Europe for

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Kings and Queens,

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and she would come back
home to her own country

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and have to sit at
the back of the train.

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- In response, she
stood flat-footed

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and she sang.

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- Easter Sunday,
April 9th, 1939.

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- [Marian Anderson] There
was a multitude such in your

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wildest imagination.

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- Even though we may not
be able to articulate

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why that person's
voice moves us so much

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because it's speaking to
so many different parts

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of who we are.

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That's what her voice had,

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this incredible power
in it to stop a nation.

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(crowd applauding)