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Why did the Daughters of the American Revolution refuse to allow Marian Anderson to sing in 1939?

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She Was A Woman
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She Was Black

She Was Black. Because of their discriminatory practices, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned as a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1939.

 

 

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