American Decades
Marian Anderson
My Lord, What a Morning
Memoir
By: Marian Anderson
Date: 1956
Source: Anderson, Marian. My Lord, What a Morning. New York: Viking, 1956, 190–193.
About the Author: Marian Anderson (1897–1993) was born in Philadelphia and began singing at age six at the Union Baptist Church. She later became a voice student and helped support her family by giving concerts. By 1917, she had become a noted contralto. She overcame global racism to become one of the truly outstanding performers of the twentieth century.
Marian Anderson: A Portrait
Memoir
By: Kosti Vehanen
Date: 1941
Source: Vehanen, Kosti. Marian Anderson: A Portrait. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1941, 237–246.
About the Author: Kosti Vehanen (1887–1957), a classical pianist born in Finland, heard Marian...
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1930's The Arts Primary Sources
- "The Production Code of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.—1930–1934"
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Early Sunday Morning
- Poetry of Langston Hughes
- "Art: U.S. Scene"
- Composition
- It Can't Happen Here
- "Mouse & Man"
- Songs of Woody Guthrie
- "The Killer-Diller: The Life and Four-Four Time of Benny Goodman"
- "Notes on a Cowboy Ballet"
- One-Third of a Nation
- The Grapes of Wrath
- "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady"
- Arena: The History of the Federal Theatre
- Marian Anderson
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
