Editing Marian Anderson (section)

=== Presidential inaugurations and goodwill ambassador tours ===
In 1957, she sang for President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]'s inauguration,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inaugurations {{!}} Eisenhower Presidential Library |url=https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers-presidential-years/inaugurations |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov |archive-date=January 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118235402/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers-presidential-years/inaugurations |url-status=live }}</ref> and toured India and the Far East as a goodwill ambassador through the U.S. State Department and the [[American National Theater and Academy]]. She traveled {{convert|35000|mi|km}} in 12 weeks, giving 24 concerts. After that, President Eisenhower appointed her a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The same year, she was elected Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 18, 2011|archive-date=June 18, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618085753/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1958, she was officially designated a delegate to the United Nations, a formalization of her role as "goodwill ambassadress" of the U.S.<ref name="NYT" />

On January 20, 1961, she sang for President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s inauguration, and in 1962 she performed for President Kennedy and other dignitaries in the [[East Room]] of the [[White House]] and toured Australia.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1962/03/23/archives/marian-anderson-calls-on-kennedy-at-white-house.html "Marian Anderson Calls on Kennedy at White House"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828173336/https://www.nytimes.com/1962/03/23/archives/marian-anderson-calls-on-kennedy-at-white-house.html |date=August 28, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 23, 1962.</ref> She was active in supporting the civil rights movement during the 1960s. She performed benefit concerts in aid of the [[America-Israel Cultural Foundation]], the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the [[Congress of Racial Equality]]. In 1963, she sang at the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]]. That same year, she received one of the newly reinstituted [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], which is awarded for "especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interest of the United States, World Peace or cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." She also released an album, ''Snoopycat: The Adventures of Marian Anderson's Cat Snoopy'', which included short stories and songs about her beloved black cat.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Marian |title=Snoopycat: The Adventures of Marian Anderson's Cat Snoopy |url=https://folkways.si.edu/marian-anderson/snoopycat-the-adventures-of-marian-andersons-cat-snoopy/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian |website=[[Smithsonian Folkways]] |access-date=December 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423082644/http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1388 |archive-date=April 23, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> That same year, Anderson concluded her farewell tour, after which she retired from public performance. The international tour began at Constitution Hall on Saturday October 24, 1964, and ended on April 18, 1965, at [[Carnegie Hall]].<ref name="NYT" /> In 1965, she christened the nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine {{USS|George Washington Carver|SSBN-656|6}}.{{sfn|Keiler|2000|pages=239}}