Bill Cosby Gets Philadelphia's Marian Anderson Award
Philly's own Bill Cosby will be recognized tonight as the recepient of this year's "Marian Anderson" award, during a gala at the Kimmel Center.
Operatic and concert star Marian Anderson, also born in Philadelphia, was the first African-American to perform at the White House, in 1936, at the invitation of President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Comedian, actor, and educator Bill Cosby (right) recalled recently how Mrs. Roosevelt, three years after Anderson's White House visit, resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution when the group refused to make its Constitution Hall available for Anderson's Easter concert because of its white-artists-only policy:
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