Editing Marian Anderson (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:MarianAnderson.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=This eight foot bronze sculpture was erected on November 9, 2006, in front of Twichell Auditorium on the campus of Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Designed by New York-based artist Meredith Bergmann and commissioned by the college; the sculpture is housed permanently on the campus.|Sculpture of Anderson, [[Converse College]], South Carolina]]

The life and art of Anderson has been commemorated by writers, artists, and city, state, and national organizations. The following is a selected list:

* She was an example and an inspiration to both [[Leontyne Price]] and [[Jessye Norman]].<ref name="NYT" />
* [[1948 in radio|1948]]: The [[anthology series|anthology]] radio [[radio drama|drama]] ''[[Destination Freedom]]'' recapped her earlier life in the episode "Choir Girl from Philadelphia".<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=MacDonald |editor1-first=J. Fred |editor-link=J. Fred MacDonald |title=Richard Durham's Destination Freedom |date=1989 |publisher=Praeger |location=New York |isbn=0-275-93138-2|page=x}}</ref>
* 1976: Among the historical figures featured in the artwork ''[[United States Bicentennial|Our Nation's 200th Birthday]], [[Invention of the telephone|The Telephone's 100th Birthday]]'' by [[Stanley Meltzoff]] for [[Bell System]].<ref>[https://www.jklmuseum.com/tag/stanley-meltzoff/ "Stanley Meltzoff Archives: The 1976 Bell System Telephone Book Cover"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813094451/https://www.jklmuseum.com/tag/stanley-meltzoff/ |date=August 13, 2021 }} [[JKL Museum of Telephony]] (December 19, 2015); retrieved March 16, 2021</ref>
* 1999: A one-act musical play entitled ''My Lord, What a Morning: The Marian Anderson Story'' was produced by the [[Kennedy Center]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Leslie |last=Kandell|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E7D6123EF930A25751C0A9669C8B63 |title=Highlights in the Life Of Marian Anderson|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 13, 2003}}</ref> The musical took its title from Anderson's memoir, published by Viking in 1956.<ref>{{Cite book|title=My Lord, what a morning : an autobiography|author=Anderson, Marian|date=2002|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=0-252-07053-4|location=Urbana|oclc=47849455}}</ref>
* 2001: The 1939 documentary film, ''[[Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert]]'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<ref name="NYT" />
* 2002: [[Molefi Kete Asante]] included Anderson in his book,''[[100 Greatest African Americans]]''.<ref>Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). ''100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia''. Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books. {{ISBN|1-57392-963-8}}.</ref>
* 2005: [[List of people on stamps of the United States|U.S. postage stamp]] honored Anderson as part of the Black Heritage series.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E6DD103DF935A35750C0A9639C8B63 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529173230/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/nyregion/noticed-oops-9yearold-spots-a-typo.html |archive-date=May 29, 2015 |url-status=dead |title=Noticed; Oops! 9-year-old spots a typo |first=Jeff |last=Holtz |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 5, 2005 |access-date=July 21, 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Anderson is also pictured on the US$5,000 Series I United States [[Treasury security|Savings Bond]].<ref>[http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds_ibondslooklike.htm What Paper "I" Savings Bonds Look Like] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612144048/http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds_ibondslooklike.htm |date=June 12, 2013 }}, [[United States Treasury]], December 28, 2011.</ref>
* 2008: A [[BBC Radio 4]] documentary, ''Freedom Song'' produced by Ekene Akalawu, was first broadcast on January 24, 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008q0sr|title=Freedom Song|website=BBC Radio 4|access-date=November 17, 2008|archive-date=September 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923224652/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008q0sr|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2008: American band director, Captain [[Kenneth R. Force]], USMS, in an interview listed Anderson as a defining influence from his childhood.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education Update - A Force for British Style Band Music at King's Point |url=http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2008/FEB/html/spot-mus-force.html |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=www.educationupdate.com}}</ref>
* 2011: The [[Marian Anderson House]], in Philadelphia, was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Marian Anderson House |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/marian-anderson-house.htm |website=[[National Park Service]] |access-date=July 21, 2022 |archive-date=July 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721035808/https://www.nps.gov/places/marian-anderson-house.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 14, 2011 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form |url=https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H128869_01H.pdf |work=Pennsylvania Department of Transportation |access-date=July 21, 2022 |archive-date=August 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814163408/https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H128869_01H.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2016: The Union Baptist Church (Built 1915–16), 1910 Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia, PA, was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, under Criteria A and J, the former being for its association with Marian Anderson, providing regulatory protection to the building from alteration and demolition.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Beisert|first1=Oscar|last2=Duffin|first2=J. M.|date=August 3, 2016|title=Philadelphia Register of Historic Places Nomination: Union Baptist Church (1915–16)|url=http://keepingphiladelphia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1910-Fitzwater-St-nom.pdf|access-date=November 27, 2020|publisher=Keeping Society of Philadelphia|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126092627/http://keepingphiladelphia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1910-Fitzwater-St-nom.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2016: [[Jack Lew]] announced that Anderson would appear along with [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] on the back of the redesigned US$5 bill scheduled to be unveiled in the year 2020, the 100th anniversary of [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment]] of the Constitution that granted women in America the right to vote.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0436.aspx|title=Treasury Secretary Lew Announces Front of New $20 to Feature Harriet Tubman, Lays Out Plans for New $20, $10 and $5|date=April 20, 2016|publisher=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|access-date=September 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813154541/https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0436.aspx|archive-date=August 13, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Kutner |first=Max |date=April 21, 2016 |title=Who Is Marian Anderson, the Woman on the New $5 Bill? |url=http://www.newsweek.com/who-marian-anderson-5-bill-450795 |magazine=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=September 2, 2016 |archive-date=August 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830192608/http://www.newsweek.com/who-marian-anderson-5-bill-450795 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2019: Anderson was profiled in the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]]’s One Life: Marian Anderson.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SisumD |date=2018-06-26 |title=One Life: Marian Anderson |url=https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/one-life-marian-anderson?utm_source=si.edu&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=MyVisitSI |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=npg.si.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Institution |first=Smithsonian |title=National Portrait Gallery Presents “One Life: Marian Anderson” |url=https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/national-portrait-gallery-presents-one-life-marian-anderson |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=Smithsonian Institution |language=en}}</ref>
* 2021: Anderson's life and the 1939 Constitution Hall controversy and her subsequent concert at the [[Lincoln Memorial]] were the subject of a documentary, ''Voice of Freedom'', that aired as an episode of ''[[American Experience (season 33)|American Experience]]'' on [[PBS]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Voice of Freedom: Turbulent Times Turned An Artist Into A Hero |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/voice-freedom/ |website=American Experience |publisher=PBS |access-date=February 17, 2021 |date=February 15, 2021 |archive-date=February 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216130935/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/voice-freedom/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* London, England, has a pub called The Marian Anderson, on Bowling Green Lane, [[Clerkenwell]], London EC1R 0BJ.
* 2024: On June 8, Verizon Hall at the [[Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts]] was renamed Marian Anderson Hall in her honor.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dobrin |first1=Peter |title=It's official: Philadelphia Orchestra's home now called Marian Anderson Hall |date=June 8, 2024 |url=https://www.inquirer.com/arts/philadelphia-orchestra-kimmel-center-marian-anderson-hall-20240608.html |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=June 9, 2024 |archive-date=June 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240609020458/https://www.inquirer.com/arts/philadelphia-orchestra-kimmel-center-marian-anderson-hall-20240608.html |url-status=live }}</ref>