The Marian Anderson Bundle

This t-shirt features the great Marian Anderson in celebration of one of the most iconic events in American History. Marian was one of the worlds most famous contralto Opera singers. She is often called the voice of the century, but her beauty, her talent, and her resilience solidified her as one of the greatest Americans heroines to ever live. In 1939, Marian was invited to sing at a benefit concert for Howard University at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. By this point Marian had travelled the world having successful concerts and was one of the highest paid musicians of her time, yet Constitution Hall was owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution and had a strict white performers only rule.

Their decision to not allow Marian to perform led to chain reaction of events that included first lady, at the time, Eleanor Roosevelt leaving the DAR and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt supporting an event where Marian would sing at the Lincoln Memorial to an integrated audience of 75,000 on Easter Sunday in 1939. The concert would provide inspiration for the Civil Rights Movement as an 11 year old Martin Luther King Jr. listened to it on the radio, later wrote a high school paper about Marian, and then years later invited her to sing at the March on Washington in 1963, which was in the same place Marian performed all those years prior.

Our Marian Anderson t-shirt is our way of honoring a voice that changed a nation. I hope her story inspires you to never give up.

This is a unisex t-shirt and fits true to size