His historic performance took place ten years before black singer Marian Anderson performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

One United States soldier,however, was killed the next day when a cannon exploded as Anderson's men prepared to leave the fort.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Major Robert Anderson, the commander of the small United States force at Sumter, wrote that his food supplies were low.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Anderson told Faulknerto develop his own way of writing, and to use material from his own part of the country.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

We continue the story of Marian Anderson and how she went on to gain great success as a singer.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

At Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson and his men waited three hours before firing back at the Confederate guns.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Years later, Anderson described how she felt on that day: "There seemed to be people as far as the eye could see.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

At one concert in the southern state of Mississippi, Anderson saw that her singing could bring people together.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

To get supplies to Anderson and his men, a ship would have to fight its way to Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Anderson then told the southerners, "If you do not shell us to pieces, hunger will force us out in a few days."

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Marian Anderson's presence made it possible for other black singers to become opera singers in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The film is based on the comic strip that was created by Brad Anderson in the nineteen fifties and still appears in newspapers.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

The Anderson reported winds of about one hundred forty kilometers an hour and waves ten meters high.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Captain Ernest McSorley radioed another freighter, the Arthur Anderson, that his boat was taking on water.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

He explained that he wished to talk with Major Anderson, not to give him orders, but to find out what the situation really was.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

They wanted to help, even though many of them were as poor as the Anderson family.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

John Anderson wants to know the costs of undergraduate and graduate study in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The D.A.R. would not permit Anderson to perform in the concert hall because she was black.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

With Mrs. Roosevelt's help, Anderson was able to sing for an even bigger crowd in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Marian Anderson did sing. And 75,000 voices - black and white - joined with hers.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Anderson told Fox that the last of the food would be gone on April fifteenth.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Niles Anderson came off the ship Portland with one hundred twelve thousand dollars in gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

In 1955, Marian Anderson was asked to sing with the New York Metropolitan Opera company.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Some recent ones include singer Norah Jones, actress Sarah Jessica Parker and reporter Anderson Cooper.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

But he said Anderson must say exactly when he and his men would leave.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

They call out for another song. And they call out her name: Marian Anderson.

VOA: special.2009.01.18