“The lesson of [Marian] Anderson’s time in Europe is stunning in its simplicity and, for that reason, has been easy to dismiss. She showed up. . . And she delivered what was becoming increasingly difficult to showcase amid so much racial violence: a brilliant demonstration of her full humanity at a time when white supremacists wanted to deny it.” (The New Yorker, 7/15/20)
The lesson of Anderson’s time in Europe is stunning in its simplicity
