, at 20th and Christian, is now the Marian Anderson Neighborhood Academy. The school educates about 307 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
That is: the 21st U.S. president, who served from 1881 to 1885, had no connection to Philadelphia, and was responsible for the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only law that everThis Philly school is on a short list to be named ‘best in the world’ for nearly eradicating out-of-school suspensions Anderson ultimately returned to the U.S., where she was the first Black singer at the Metropolitan Opera, sang at two presidential inaugurations, and worked with the U.S. State Department and United Nations.Luca’s classmate Malachi Grogan told the school board Anderson “was determined to be the best, and it wasn’t fair that she wasn’t fully allowed to sing where other non-Black singers could.