Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1959-1983.

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Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1959-1983.

Anderson was appointed a member of the Advisory Committe on the Arts of the National Cultural Center by President Eisenhower in 1959. Her correspondence with chair Robert W. Dowling, and with Jarold A. Kiefer, Roger L. Stevens, Arthur S. Fleming, Dorothy Ducas, Robert Saudek, Frederick W. Richmond, and others from 1959-1963 is in Folders 3999-4000.

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