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In the spring of 1939, opera singer Marian Anderson was banned from performing at Washington, D.C.’s Constitution Hall because she was African-American. Dorothy Height remembers how that event sparked a relationship between the burgeoning Civil Rights movement and the Lincoln Memorial.