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Marian Anderson, famous singer, visited Stephens-Lee High School while in the city to give a recital at the City Auditorium in 1945. Front row left to right, Mable McCaine, teacher (in light-colored dress); unidentified adult, Vernon Cowan, teacher; Marian Anderson; Frank Toliver, principal; J.D. Carr, editor of Carolina Times, Isabell Jones, music teacher at Allen High School.

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Title Marian Anderson Visits Stephens Lee
Date (Text) 1945
Date 1945
Geographic Coverage Asheville (N.C.)
Buncombe County (N.C.)
Subject (Topic) African Americans--North Carolina--History.
African Americans--Appalachian Region--History.
Subject (Images)
Subject (Name)
Type Image
Format Photographs
Group portraits
Language English
Dimensions 4.75" x 3.5"
Digital Exhibit Heritage of Black Highlanders
Local Item/Call Number HBH074
Standard Rights Statement http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Contributing Institution
Contact Information Special Collections, UNC Asheville | CPO# 1500, One University Heights, Asheville, NC 28804 | speccoll@unca.edu | 828-251-6645
Digital Collection Images of North Carolina
Linked Resources Images in the Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection include photographs collected by Lucy Herring and other leaders of Asheville’s African American community in 1977. The collection is housed in Special Collections, Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina Asheville,

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