2 pp. (single sheet). 6x9”, color pictorial, with tributes to Marian Anderson on verso by Eleanor Roosevelt and others. Marian Anderson was internationally renowned after the 1939 cause celebre in which the DAR refused to allow her to sing at Constitution Hall because of her race. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt quit the organization and instead invited Anderson to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. That momentous event took place on Easter Sunday 1939, before a crowd of 75,000. As part of her national tour that followed, the vocalist was asked to perform in New Orleans by a Black sorority. She agreed. But the white organizers of the concert had planned a whites-only event; only after protests from the local Black community did the Municipal Auditorium agree to seat Blacks in the balcony, not on the ground floor, which was reserved for a whites. The NAACP, failing to persuade Anderson to cancel her appearance, attempted to boycott the concert. But it went ahead before a wildly enthusiastic audience of 5,000 - including 2,000 Black people - seated in the balcony.
2 pp. (single sheet). 6x9”, color pictorial, with tributes to Marian Anderson on verso by Eleanor Roosevelt and others. Marian Anderson was internationally renowned after the 1939 cause celebre in which the DAR refused to allow her to sing at Constitution Hall because of her race. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt quit the organization and instead invited Anderson to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. That momentous event took place on Easter Sunday 1939, before a crowd of 75,000. As part of her national tour that followed, the vocalist was asked to perform in New Orleans by a Black sorority. She agreed. But the white organizers of the concert had planned a whites-only event; only after protests from the local Black community did the Municipal Auditorium agree to seat Blacks in the balcony, not on the ground floor, which was reserved for a whites. The NAACP, failing to persuade Anderson to cancel her appearance, attempted to boycott the concert. But it went ahead before a wildly enthusiastic audience of 5,000 - including 2,000 Black people - seated in the balcony.
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