Showing Sweet Land of Liberty by Deborah Hopkinson
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Sweet Land of Liberty On Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in front of a crowd of over 75,000 people. The man largely responsible for putting her there was a white man, Oscar Chapman, Assistant Secretary of the Interior under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When Chapman learned that Marian Anderson was not allowed to sing at Constitution Hall because of the color of Full description