In 1939, some 75,000 people gathered at the Linclon Memorial in Washington to hear black singer Marian Anderson perform after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."