LEFT PHOTO: "ER presents the NAACP's coveted Spingarn Medal to contralto Marian Anderson on July 2, 1939. The preceding April the DAR was refused to allow Anderson to perform in Constitution Hall in Washington. ER resigned from the DAR and was instrumental in arranging a performance for Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, which was attended by over 75,000 people. [The Bettmann Archive]."

From: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt. Ed. Allida M. Black. Carlson Publishing, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, 1995.

RIGHT PHOTO: Eleanor Roosevelt again met with Marian Anderson again during her travels through Japan in 1953.

Photo dated: May 22, 1953. From: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Photo Collection. Hyde Park, NY.