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Spingarn Medal - Wikipedia  The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievement by an African American. The award, which consists of a gold medal, was created in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn, Chairman of the Board of the NAACP. ... 1974 Damon J. Keith (jurist); 1975 Henry L. Aaron (athlete); 1976 Alvin Ailey,...
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Text of HR 2635 (113th): Hank Aaron Congressional Gold Medal Act  Jul 9, 2013 ... To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Hank Aaron, in recognition of his ... Hank Aaron made the All Star Team for 21 consecutive years, from 1955 to 1975. ... He was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP ('76) for...
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Spingarn Medal Winners: 1915 to Today | NAACP  1974: Damon J. Keith Jurist; in tribute to his steadfast defense of constitutional principles. 1975: NO AWARD GIVEN. 1976: Hank Aaron Athlete, in recognition of...
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Spingarn Medal | Britannica.com  Apr 21, 2016 ... The first NAACP committee to award the medal included prominent leaders such as John Hope, the ... 1975, Hank Aaron, baseball player.
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This Day in Georgia History - Hank Aaron Awarded Springarn Medal ...  December 17, 1975. Hank Aaron Awarded Springarn Medal. The NAACP presented its annual Spingarn Medal to Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron for his landmark...
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TR Center - NAACP  The organization was created in 1909, partially in response to the 1908 race ... the organization on Abraham Lincoln's 100th birthday, February 12, 1909. ... To achieve its goals the NAACP founded The Crisis, the organization's official journal. ... The Crisis editor W. E. B. Du Bois briefly supported Roosevelt's 1912 efforts.
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Alice Walker - Author, Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist ...  Feb 6, 2015 ... Alice Walker is an African-American, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ... Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1982 novel, The ... She became active in the Civil Rights Movement, fighting for equality for all African Americans. Her experiences informed her first collection of poetry, Once, which...
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About Brooklyn NAACP  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is ... social justice for all in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City and the nation.
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Spingarn Medal - Wikipedia  The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievement by an African American. The award, which consists of a gold medal, was created in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn, Chairman of the Board of the NAACP. ... 1915 Ernest E. Just (biologist); 1916 Charles Young (U.S. Army officer); 1917...
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Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) | The Black ...  Jesse Jackson in 1971 to improve the economic status of African Americans in ... Rainbow Coalition, a political organization he founded a decade earlier.
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Spingarn Medal - Wikipedia  The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievement by an African American. The award, which consists of a gold medal, was created in 1914 by Joel ... Study of Negro Life and History, editor of Negro Orators and Their Orations)...
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Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist - Biography.com  Feb 18, 2016 ... Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a ... Rosa Parks received many accolades during her lifetime, including the NAACP's highest award. .... On September 9, 1996, President Bill Clinton awarded Parks the ... Among these honors, a commemorative U.S. Postal Service stamp,...
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NBA Winners by Category, 1950 - 2015, National Book Foundation ...  National Book Award Winners: 1950  2015 (alpha by category). Arts and .... 1975: All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten .... 1955: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens ... 1980: Ashes by Philip Levine .... 2009: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
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Ralph Bunche First African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize ...  Ralph Bunche First African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 | See more ... humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. .... In 1912, he became the second Black to earn a Ph.D at Harvard University.
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CNN - Rosa Parks among 11 to get Presidential Medal of Freedom ...  Sep 6, 1996 ... President Clinton choose civil rights leaders, social activists and business leaders to receive the 1996 Presidential Medal of Freedom. ... Fuller is founder and president of Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that ... As an executive of Johnson Publishing Co., which produces the African-American...
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Spingarn Medal Winners: 1915 to Today | NAACP  U.S. Consul in Santo Domingo; President of American Negro Academy; ... Author, Editor Crisis Magazine; founding and calling of Pan-African Congress. ... President of Atlanta University; distinguished leader of his race. ... 1938: NO AWARD GIVEN ... Singer and Actor chosen for distinguished achievement in the theatre and...
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NAACP - United States History  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 in New York City by a group of bi-racial activists. Originally...
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NAACP Louisiana State Conference - National Spingarn Award  Awarded annually for the highest achievement of an American of African descent. View the complete list of past Spingarn honorees. THE SPINGARN MEDAL was instituted in 1914 by the late J.E. Spingarn (then Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors), who gave annually until his death in 1939, .... 1994: Maya Angelou.
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NAACP Image Award - Wikipedia  Official website, NAACP Image Awards. An NAACP Image Award is an accolade presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music ... Although for long not having a Best Actress in a Motion Picture nominee, in 1987 it was...
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Spingarn Medal | Britannica.com  Apr 21, 2016 ... Spingarn Medal, gold medal awarded annually by the National ... The NAACP is in charge of administering the award, with Howard and Fisk ... 1975, Hank Aaron, baseball player .... The Nobel Prizes were first presented in 1901 and have since become some of the most-prestigious awards in the world.
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Aaron Pryor - Wikipedia  Silver medal  second place, 1975 Mexico City  Lightweight. Aaron Pryor (October 20, 1955  October 9, 2016) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 1990. He was a two-time light welterweight world champion, having held the WBA ... Pryor participated as an alternate in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.