Marian Anderson was a sensation, fresh from a European tour and booked for 70 solo concert dates in 1938 alone. Securing a venue for an Easter 1939 concert in Washington, DC should have been a formality.
Seventy-two years before Rosa Parks and the NAACP desegregated public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama, a 21-year-old teacher attempted to do the same in Tennessee ““ twice. You may have heard the name of Ida B. Wells Barnett, the journalist, suffragist, and founding member of the NAACP, but before she became one of the early twentieth […]