When Anderson was 12, her father received a head injury while working at the Reading Terminal before Christmas 1909. Soon afterwards, her father died following heart failure. He was 37 …

Apr 9, 1993 · She died at the home of her nephew, the conductor James DePreist. Lee Walter, a friend of the singer, gave the cause as congestive heart failure a month after a stroke.

Apr 3, 2024 · Although the incident with the DAR lead to Marian Anderson's most famous concert on the National Mall, that was not the only time she sang there. The man who gave permission …

Marian Anderson (born February 27, 1897, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died April 8, 1993, Portland, Oregon) was an American singer, one of the finest contraltos of her time.

Apr 8, 1993 · First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in protest and encouraged Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, to arrange for Marian Anderson instead to give a free …

Apr 9, 1993 · Anderson spent her retirement on a 155-acre farm in Danbury, Connecticut until she moved in with her nephew, Oregon Symphony music director James DePreist in 1992. She …

She died at the home of her nephew, the conductor James DePreist. Lee Walter, a friend of the singer, gave the cause as congestive heart failure a month after a stroke.

Apr 9, 1993 · Miss Anderson, who had suffered a stroke last month, died in Portland, Ore., at the home of her nephew, James DePriest, music director of the Oregon Symphony.

Born Marian Anderson on February 27, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died in Portland,Oregon, on April 8, 1993; daughter of John Anderson (a laborer) and Anna Anderson …

She continued to reside at the farm until 1992, when she moved in with family in Portland, Oregon. Anderson died there a year later, aged 96. Her remains were returned east to the …