Philadelphia's National Marian Anderson Museum honors the legacy of the barrier-breaking Black singer who sang from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington.
Sixty years after the March on Washington, a piece of history lives on at Philadelphia's National Marian Anderson Museum.
The museum is home to the phone Anderson used to answer the call about performing at the March on Washington. She returned to the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington and sang"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands."HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images "When you see such history just floating and you don't know how it's going to be fixed, it was more than I could bear," Pirtle said.
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