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  • There are surely others but Marian Anderson the contralto who sang at the Lincoln Memoriial in Washington, DC in 1939 despite protests because of her race by the DAR and is intered at Eden Cemetery in Collingdale after her death on 8 April 1993 may be the icon most worthy of mention.
  • Pearl Bailey won accolades both as a singer and actress bu she was born in Southampton Caounty, Virginia and died in Philadelphis on 17 August 1990 and she is intered in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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