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The great singer became embroiled in political controversy when the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her, a Black, sing in Constitution Hall in 1939. As a result First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR, and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes offered her the Lincoln Memorial for her 1939 Easter Sunday concert. Four years later she was finally allowed to sing in Constitution Hall. Throughout the controversy Ms. Anderson never attacked those who refused her.


Al Pacino
Al Pacino
  • Born: April 25, 1940
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Filmmaker

Alfredo James Pacino is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino's film debut came at the age of 29 with a minor role in Me, Natalie (1969). He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), for which he received his first Oscar nomination, and he would reprise the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).