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Spingarn Medal

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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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