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The Voice That Challenged a Nation: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Contributor(s): Freedman, Russell (Author)
ISBN: 0547480342     ISBN-13: 9780547480343
Publisher: Clarion Books
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
Dewey: B
Lexile Measure: 1180
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.97" W x 9.98" (0.98 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 1920's
- Chronological Period - 1930's
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 78566
Reading Level: 8.2   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 3.0
 
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Publisher Description:

2005 Sibert Medal Winner
A 2005 Newbery Honor Book

"A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, "is heard once in a hundred years." This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing on Anderson's own writings and other contemporary accounts, Russell Freedman shows readers a singer pursuing her art despite the social constraints that limited the careers of black performers in the 1920s and 1930s. Though not a crusader or a spokesperson by nature, Marian Anderson came to stand for all black artists -- and for all Americans of color -- when, with the help of such prominent figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, she gave her landmark 1939 performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, which signaled the end of segregation in the arts.

Carefully researched, expertly told, and profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, this Newbery Honor and Sibert Medal-winning book is a moving account of the life of a talented and determined artist who left her mark on musical and social history. Through her story, Newbery Medal-winning author Russell Freedman, one of today's leading authors of nonfiction for young readers, illuminates the social and political climate of the day and an important chapter in American history. Notes, bibliography, discography, index.

Contributor Bio(s): Freedman, Russell: - RUSSELL FREEDMAN received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, a National Humanities Medal, the Sibert Medal, the Orbis Pictus Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City and travels widely to research his books.