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<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>
The simplification of 13/4 is 3.25.
To find this out you divide 13 by 4.
13 / 4 = 3.25
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or Americans, the lasting image of the end of the Vietnam War came from the nightly news. On April 29, 1975, television showed the evacuation of Saigon as U.S. Marine helicopters swooped down to the U.S. Embassy and the roof of a nearby CIA safe house to rescue the last 1,000 Americans in the city and some 6,000 Vietnamese and their families who worked for them.
But there was another evacuation that didn't get as much attention. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese found other ways to escape in those frenzied few days. They left in boats and helicopters and headed to the South China Sea. They didn't know if North Vietnamese jets would sink their boats or shoot the helicopters out of the sky.
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They did know that the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet was out there, somewhere, and they headed out to the ocean hoping to be rescued.
One of those U.S. Navy ships was a small destroyer escort, the USS Kirk. As the evacuation began, the Kirk's military mission was to shoot down any North Vietnamese jets that might try to stop the Marine helicopters. The North Vietnamese planes never came.
The approximately 260 officers and men of the USS Kirk weren't prepared for what happened next.
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