Marian Anderson papers

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993

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Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 (although throughout much of her life she gave her birth date as February 17, 1902) in south Philadelphia. Her father, John Berkley Anderson, sold ice and coal and her mother Annie Delilah Rucker Anderson was a former schoolmistress. She was the oldest of three sisters. She began singing when she was six, in the church choir, and by eight had become a regular substitute, filling in for absent sopranos, tenors and even bass. She was presented in one c...

Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1898-1974

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Raymond Pace Alexander (October 13, 1897 – November 24, 1974) was an American civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and the first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas. A native Philadelphian, he was born in 1897 into a large working class family. He graduated from Central High School in 1917; entered the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1917; graduated from the Wharton School in 1920 and from Harvard Law School in June 1923. He was admitted to...

Fellowship House (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989

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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (January 2, 1898 – November 1, 1989) was an American lawyer who was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania, following in her father's footsteps. She was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, serving from 1919 to 1923. In 1946 she ...

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Ruttan, Lillian M.

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Fisher, Orpheus H.

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Orpheus H. Fisher was born in 1903 and was an architect practicing in New York City. He married Marian Anderson in 1943 and died in 1985. From the description of Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1923-1977. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63557890 ...

Anderson, Anna D. (Anna Delilah)

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DePreist, Ethel Anderson, 1902-1990.

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Anderson, Alyse, 1899-1965.

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Alyse Anderson, Marian Anderson's sister, was born in Philadelphia on 30 December 1899. She was a soprano and performed in Philadelphia, was involved with Democratic party politics in the city, and organized the auditions for contestants for the Marian Anderson Scholarship Fund until her death in Philadelphia in May 1965. From the description of Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1928-1956. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63560270 ...

Hurok Concerts Inc

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