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Today, I make this post in honor of both the women we have welcomed to the Forum as well as the women who we love so dearly in our own lives. Sunday, April 9, 1939...opera singer Marian Anderson (a strong and accomplished woman of color with a stunning vocal range) was giving a recital at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Television broadcasting as we know it today was still in the future, so imagine yourself listening to the radio in your home, joining a nationwide audience of millions. As Miss Anderson approached the microphones, she saw before her a vast crowd. The newsreel cameras began recording an event for the ages...https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPqu4xTuu0

Twenty-four years later, and another gathering of note at the Lincoln Memorial. August 28, 1963: the March on Washington. A truly astonishing landmark of the Civil Rights Movement. As the final speaker of the event approached the lectern, absolutely no one (in the crowd of people estimated at 250,000, in the millions watching on television, or even the speaker himself) knew what was about to take place, as the lectern became a pulpit...https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyk8sYGghiQ