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Awarded to African Americans who perform acts of distinguished merit and achievement. Created by NAACP president Joel Elias Spingarn in 1914. First award was given to Ernest Everett Just on February 2, 1915
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt presenting the Spingarn Medal to Marian Anderson in July 1939
HONOR
NameOccupationBirthDeath Known for
Hank Aaron
Sports - Baseball
Feb 5, 1934
Hall of Fame Baseball Player
Alvin Ailey
Dancer
Jan 5, 1931
Dec 1, 1989
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Marian Anderson
Musician
Feb 27, 1897
Apr 8, 1993
Operatic contralto singer
Maya Angelou
Poet
Apr 4, 1928
Former Poet Laureate of the United States
W. E. B. Du Bois
Activist
Feb 23, 1868
Aug 27, 1963
Civil Rights activist
Tom Bradley
Politician
Dec 27, 1917
Sep 29, 1998
Mayor of Los Angeles 1973-93
Ralph Bunche
Activist
Aug 4, 1904
Dec 9, 1971
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948
George Washington Carver
Inventor
c. 1864
Jan 5, 1943
Chemist, educator, peanut farmer
Charles Chesnutt
Novelist
Jun 20, 1858
Nov 15, 1932
Early U.S. black novelist
Bill Cosby
Comic
Jul 12, 1937
Actor, comedian, Public Speaker
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Musician
Dec 8, 1925
May 16, 1990
Actor, Singer, Entertainer
Charles R. Drew
Scientist
Jun 3, 1904
Apr 1, 1950
First to separate blood plasma
Duke Ellington
Musician
Apr 29, 1899
May 24, 1974
Jazz Musician composer
John Hope Franklin
Historian
Jan 2, 1915
From Slavery to Freedom
Alex Haley
Novelist
Aug 11, 1921
Feb 10, 1992
Author of Roots
Lena Horne
Musician
Jun 30, 1917
Jazz singer, famous for Stormy Weather
Langston Hughes
Poet
Feb 1, 1902
May 22, 1967
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Jesse Jackson
Activist
Oct 8, 1941
Rainbow Coalition, Civil Rights Activist
Vernon Jordan
Business
Aug 15, 1935
Advisor to President Bill Clinton
Ernest E. Just
Inventor
Martin Luther King
Activist
Jan 15, 1929
Apr 4, 1968
Pacifist Civil Rights activist
Thurgood Marshall
Government
Jan 8, 1908
Jan 24, 1993
First black U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Rosa Parks
Activist
Feb 4, 1913
Civil Rights Activist
Colin Powell
Government
Apr 5, 1937
US Secretary of State 2001-05
Paul Robeson
Entertainer
Apr 9, 1898
Jan 23, 1976
20th Century renaissance man, actor
Jackie Robinson
Sports - Baseball
Jan 31, 1919
Oct 23, 1972
First Black in the major leagues
L. Douglas Wilder
Politician
Jan 17, 1931
Governor of Virginia 1990-94
Oprah Winfrey
Talk Show Host
Jan 29, 1954
Actor, Entertainer
Andrew Young
Politician
Mar 12, 1932
Second black mayor of Atlanta
Charles Young
Soldier
Mar 12, 1864
Jan 8, 1922
Buffalo Soldier
Coleman Young
Politician
May 24, 1918
Nov 30, 1997
Mayor of Detroit 1974-93
1915
Ernest E. Just
1916
Charles Young
1917
Harry T. Burleigh
1918
William Stanley Braithwaite
1919
Archibald H. Grimke
1920
W. E. B. Du Bois
1921
Charles S. Gilpin
1922
Mary Burnett Talbert
1923
George Washington Carver
1924
Roland Hayes
1925
James Weldon Johnson
1926
Carter G. Woodson
1927
Anthony Overton
1928
Charles W. Chesnutt
1929
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
1930
Henry A. Hunt
1931
Richard Berry 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 Wright
1942
A. Philip Randolph
1943
William H. Hastie
1944
Charles Drew
1945
Paul Robeson
1946
Thurgood Marshall
1947
Percy Julian
1948
Channing H. Tobias
1949
Ralph J. Bunche
1950
Charles Hamilton Houston
1951
Mabel Keaton Staupers
1952
Harry T. Moore
1953
Paul R. Williams
1954
Theodore K. Lawless
1955
Carl Murphy
1956
Jackie Robinson
1957
Martin Luther King. Jr.
1958
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock 9
1959
Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
1960
Langston Hughes
1961
Kenneth B. Clark
1962
Robert C. Weaver
1963
Medgar Evers
1964
Roy Wilkins
1965
Leontyne Price
1966
John H. Johnson
1967
Edward W. Brooke III
1968
Sammy Davis, Jr.
1969
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
1970
Jacob Lawrence
1971
Leon Howard Sullivan
1972
Gordon Parks
1973
Wilson C. Riles
1974
Damon Keith
1975
Hank Aaron
1976
Alvin Ailey
1977
Alex Haley
1978
Andrew Young
1979
Rosa L. Parks
1980
Rayford W. Logan
1981
Coleman Young
1982
Benjamin E. Mays
1983
Lena Horne
1984
Tom Bradley
1985
Bill Cosby
1986
Benjamin L. Hooks
1987
Percy Ellis Sutton
1988
Frederick Douglass Patterson
1989
Jesse Jackson
1990
L. Douglas Wilder
1991
Colin T. Powell
1992
Barbara Jordan
1993
Dorothy Irene Height
1994
Maya Angelou
1995
John Hope Franklin
1996
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
1997
Carl Rowan
1998
Myrlie Evers-Williams
1999
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
2000
Oprah Winfrey
2001
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
2002
John Lewis
2003
Constance Baker Motley2004Robert L. Carter
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