During her long and storied career as a singer of opera and popular music, Marian Anderson performed before European royalty and packed houses around the world, but there was one audience she especially strove to reach: other Black Americans.
It was during a 1936 performance in Jackson, Mississippi, which Anderson gave despite the insult of a segregated audience, that she inspired someone who would expand on her legacy, bringing even more Black excellence to opera. In that audience was a little girl on her way to becoming the diva, Leontyne Price.
