<span> Marian Anderson was 42 when she sang her legendary open-air concert at the Lincoln Memorial on 9 April 1939.
2.
Anderson was a famous contralto of the day, and the concert was
arranged after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let
her perform at Constitution Hall because she was black
3. (First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in protest and helped arrange the concert at the Lincoln Memorial.)
4. Anderson was the aunt of Oregon Symphony conductor James DePriest
5.
On January 7, 1955, Anderson broke the color barrier by becoming the
first African-American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera.
6.
In 1958 she was officially designated delegate to the United Nations, a
formalization of her role as "goodwill ambassador" of the U.S. she
played earlier, and in 1972 she was awarded the UN Peace Prize.
7.
On January 27, 2005, a commemorative U.S. postage stamp honored Marian
Anderson as part of the Black Heritage series. Anderson is also pictured
on the US$5,000 Series I United States Savings Bond</span>
Answer:
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Answer:
C. to emphasize the difficulties faced by soldiers in untraditional warfare
Explanation:
In the excerpt from "A Rumor of War," the author Philip Caputo directs attention to the brutal and untraditional manner in which the Vietnam War was fought. Throught the book, he mentions the violence, screaming, deaths, mutilations, explosions of granades and automatic weapons, and the apprehension he experienced fighting in the war.
It's B. Did she say, "Your mother called?"
The "end mark" is always before the quotation marks.
Yet, I have a feeling you know this already...just want to hurry and get this assessment done; right?
Answer:
A. Authors must make sure the reader is interested in characters when bad things happen.
B. Authors should slowly reveal information about a mysterious character.
D. Crime in a plot is a good tool for showing the human condition.