Flip to Marian Anderson and stage director Herbert Graf, rehearsing at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, January 1955.Close Window
Credit: Marian Anderson Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
On July 31, 154, Marian Anderson returned to the city of her birth to dedicate the Marian Anderson Recreation Center at 17th and Fitzwater streets on July 31, 1954. That day South Philadelphians turned out by the hundreds to greet their former neighbor.
