Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Title: When Marian Sang
Illustrator: Brian Selznick
Genre: Non-fiction
Subgenre: biography
Theme: racial equality
Primary Characters: Marian Anderson
Secondary characters: none
Awards: Robert F. Sibert Honor Book and Orbis Pictus Winner
Date of publication: 2002
Publishing company: Scholastic
Summary: This is an introduction into the life, struggles and accomplishments of one of the world's greatest singers, Marian Anderson. She is best known for her historic concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, which drew an unprecedented integrated crowd in a pre-Civil Rights America.
Use with Students: I would use this in a unit of reading biographies about brave individuals.
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