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The Spingarn Medal
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People for outstanding achievement by a black
American.
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1915
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Ernest E. Just
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1916
- Charles Young
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1917
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Harry T. Burleigh
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1918
- William Stanley Braithwaite
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1919
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Archibald H. Grimke
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1920
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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1921
- Charles S. Gilpin
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1922
- Mary B. Talbert
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1923
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George Washington Carver
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1924
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Roland Hayes
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1925
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James Weldon Johnson
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1926
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Carter G. Woodson
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1927
- Anthony Overton
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1928
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Charles W. Chesnutt
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1929
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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1930
- Henry A. Hunt
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1931
- Richard Berry Harrison
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1932
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Robert Russa Moton
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1933
- Max Yergan
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1934
- William T. B. Williams
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1935
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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1936
- John Hope
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1937
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Walter White
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1938
- No award
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1939
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Marian Anderson
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1940
- Louis T. Wright
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1941
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Richard Wright
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1942
- A. Philip Randolph
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1943
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William H. Hastie
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1944
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Charles Drew
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1945
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Paul Robeson
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1946
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Thurgood Marshall
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1947
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Percy Julian
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1948
- Channing H. Tobias
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1949
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Ralph J. Bunche
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1950
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Charles Hamilton Houston
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1951
- Mabel Keaton Staupers
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1952
- Harry T. Moore
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1953
- Paul R. Williams
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1954
- Theodore K. Lawless
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1955
- Carl Murphy
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1956
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Jackie Robinson
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1957
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1958
- Daisy Bates and the
Little Rock Nine
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1959
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Edward Kennedy
(Duke)
Ellington
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1960
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Langston Hughes
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1961
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Kenneth B. Clark
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1962
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Robert C. Weaver
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1963
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Medgar Evers
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1964
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Roy Wilkins
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1965
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Leontyne Price
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1966
- John H. Johnson
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1967
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Edward W. Brooke III
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1968
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
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1969
- Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
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1970
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Jacob Lawrence
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1971
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Leon Howard Sullivan
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1972
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Gordon Parks
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1973
- Wilson C. Riles
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1974
- Damon Keith
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1975
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Hank Aaron
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1976
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Alvin Ailey
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1977
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Alex Haley
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1978
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Andrew Young
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1979
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Rosa L. Parks
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1980
- Rayford W. Logan
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1981
- Coleman Young
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1982
- Benjamin E. Mays
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1983
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Lena Horne
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1984
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Tom Bradley
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1985
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Bill Cosby
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1986
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Benjamin L. Hooks
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1987
- Percy Ellis Sutton
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1988
- Frederick Douglass
Patterson
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1989
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Jesse Jackson
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1990
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L. Douglas Wilder
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1991
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Colin T. Powell
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1992
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Barbara Jordan
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1993
- Dorothy Irene Height
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1994
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Maya Angelou
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1995
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John Hope Franklin
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1996
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A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
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1997
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Carl Rowan
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1998
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Myrlie Evers-Williams
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1999
- Earl G. Graves, Sr.
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2000
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Oprah Winfrey
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2001
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Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
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2002
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John Lewis
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2003
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Constance Baker Motley
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2004
- Robert L. Carter
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2005
- Oliver W. Hill
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2006
- Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.
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2007
- John Conyers, Jr.
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