Spingarn Medal

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Spingarn Medal

HONOR

Awarded to "American negroes who perform acts of distinguished merit and achievement". Created by NAACP president Joel Elias Spingarn in 1914.

1915 Ernest Just

1916 Colonel Charles Young

1917 Harry T. Burleigh

1918 William S. B. Braithwaite

1919 Archibald H. Grimke

1920 W. E. B. Du Bois

1921 Charles S. Gilpin

1922 Mary B. Talbert

1923 George Washington Carver

1924 Roland T. Hayes

1925 James Weldon Johnson

1926 Carter G. Woodson

1927 Anthony Overton

1928 Charles Chesnutt

1929 Mordecai W. Johnson

1930 Henry A. Hunt

1931 Richard B. Harrison

1932 Robert Russa Moton

1933 Max Yergan

1934 William T. B. Williams

1935 Mary McLeod Bethune

1936 John Hope

1937 Walter White

1938 (no award)

1939 Marian Anderson

1940 Louis T. Wright

1941 Richard N. Wright

1942 A. Philip Randolph

1943 William H. Hastie

1944 Charles Drew

1945 Paul Robeson

1946 Thurgood Marshall

1947 Percy Julian

1948 Channing Heggie Tobias

1949 Ralph Bunche

1950 Charles Hamilton Houston

1951 Mabel K. Staupers

1952 Harry T. Moore

1953 Paul R. Williams

1954 Theodore K. Lawless

1955 Carl J. Murphy

1956 Jackie Robinson

1957 Martin Luther King

1958 Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

1959 Duke Ellington

1960 Langston Hughes

1961 Kenneth B. Clark

1962 Robert C. Weaver

1963 Medgar Evers

1964 Roy Wilkins

1965 Leontyne Price

1966 John Harold Johnson

1967 Edward W. Brooke III

1968 Sammy Davis, Jr.

1969 Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.

1970 Jacob Lawrence

1971 Leon H. Sullivan

1972 Gordon Parks

1973 Wilson C. Riles

1974 Damon J. Keith

1975 Hank Aaron

1976 Alvin Ailey

1977 Alex Haley

1978 Andrew Young

1979 Rosa Parks

1980 Rayford W. Logan

1981 Coleman Young

1982 Benjamin Mays

1983 Lena Horne

1984 Tom Bradley

1985 Bill Cosby

1986 Benjamin Hooks

1987 Percy E. Sutton

1988 Frederick Douglass Patterson

1989 Jesse Jackson

1990 L. Douglas Wilder

1991 Colin Powell

1992 Barbara Jordan

1993 Dorothy Height

1994 Maya Angelou

1995 John Hope Franklin

1996 A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

1997 Carl Rowan

1998 Myrlie Evers-Williams

1999 Earl G. Graves

2000 Oprah Winfrey

2001 Vernon Jordan

2002 John Lewis

2003 Constance Baker Motley

2004 Robert L. Carter

2005 Oliver W. Hill

2006 Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.

2007 John Conyers

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