Atlanta: Peachtree Publishing Company, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which shows how an event in one person's childhood can change history. "On Easter Sunday 1939, Marian Anderson performed at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in front of a crowd of over 75,000 people. The man largely responsible for putting her there was a white man, Oscar Chapman, Assistant Secretary of the Interior under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When Chapman learned that Marian Anderson was not allowed to sing at Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin, he took it upon himself to do the impossible: find Marian Anderson an appropriate venue for a concert and make an important statement about equality and the rights of all Americans - this landmark concert, for at least one evening, bridged the color divide to bring a city and much of the nation together." Illustrated throughout in full color by Leonard Jenkins. INSCRIBED by Hopkinson on the title page "for... stand up for what you believe" and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. Large oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1561453955.