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the sixteenth president rising up behind
her. A regal woman with toffee-colored
skin, she gazes at her audience of
75,000: men in brimmed hats, ladies in
their Sunday best, a great sea of black
and white faces. “My country ’tis of
thee,” she begins, her voice soaring,
each word pure and distinct. “Sweet
land of liberty.” The crowd is rapt and
tearful. They never thought this day
would come to pass.
And it wouldn’t have, without Eleanor
Roosevelt. Earlier that year, Anderson
had planned to sing at Constitution
Hall in Washington, D.C., but the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
who owned the hall, rejected her because
of her race. Eleanor Roosevelt,
whose family had fought in the Revolution,
resigned from the DAR, helped arrange
for Anderson to sing at the Lincoln
Memorial—and ignited a national
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