70 years ago today, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera in New York rose to reveal Marian Anderson, the first African American to perform with the Met.

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70 years ago today, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera in New York rose to reveal Marian Anderson, the first African American to perform with the Met.

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