The Marian Anderson House hosted a living history tours virtually on Zoom for our Penn's Village audience.

Our tour visited all three floors of the museum, and included documentary clips and recordings of the great opera singer, humanitarian and Philadelphia native.

Marian Anderson was an important figure in the struggle for African-American artists to overcome racial prejudice in the United States during the mid-twentieth century.

On January 7, 1955, Anderson became the first African-American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. She participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, singing at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Anderson was awarded the first Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the Congressional Gold Medal in 1977, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.

In addition, she worked as a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United States Department of State, giving concerts all over the world.