Intolerance: Anderson versus State

One of the most shocking ethnic crimes that occurred in the United States on October 17, 1981. That week, the jury tried to ruling that black Joseph Anderson had killed a white police officer. . The killing took place in Birmingham, Alabama, but the trial moved to Mobile in Alabama. Francis Hayes is the second highest clan officer in Alabama and he and the members of the unit of 900 units of Krona know that there is a black in the jury meaning the guilty will be free I will.

In the mid-20th century, Anderson became an important person in the fight of American black artists to overcome racial prejudice. In 1939, the American Revolutionary Daughter (DAR) refused to allow Anderson to sing to the general audience at the Constitutional Hall. This case makes Anderson the center of attention of the international community and it is unusual for classical musicians. On April 9, 1939, with the help of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband, Franklin Roosevelt, Anderson held an outdoor concert praised about the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. She sang in front of everyone. Over 75,000 people and millions of radio viewers. Anderson continued to cross the walls of black American artists and became the first black, American or other person to play on the New York metropolitan opera on January 7, 1955.

In 1955, 1956 Anderson sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. This is the first time African Americans have sung in big cities since opening in 1883. Anderson has been improving her achievements for many years. She sang in the inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) and John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). In 1957, Anderson toured the Indian and Far East for the US State Department. In 1958 President Eisenhower appointed her as the representative of the thirteenth UN meeting (United Nations). She was awarded the United Nations Peace Prize in 1977. Anderson held a farewell concert (last show) at Carnegie Hall in New York on Easter Sunday in 1965. She died on 8th April 1993 in Portland, Oregon.