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Considered the world's greatest contralto during her singing career, Marian Anderson was also the first black singer to perform with the Metropolitan Opera. In 1939, when she was to give a concert in Washington, D.C. at Constitution Hall owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), the owners refused to let her perform because she was African American. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were outraged. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her DAR membership and arranged for Anderson to give a concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Over 75,000 people attended one of the most famous concerts ever given in the U.S. hide information

Considered the world's greatest contralto during her singing career, Marian Anderson was also the first black singer to perform with the Metropolitan Opera. In 1939, when she was to give a concert in Washington, D.C. at Constitution Hall owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), the owners refused to let her perform because she was African American. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were outraged. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her DAR membership and arranged for Anderson to give a concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Over 75,000 people attended one of the most famous concerts ever given in the U.S. This stamp was issued by the U.S. Postal Service on January 27, 2005 as part of the Black Heritage series .