The Spingarn Medal
Updated June 13, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for outstanding achievement by a Black American.
- 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 B. Talbert
- 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
- 1943
- William H. Hastie
- 1944
- Charles Drew
- 1945
- Paul Robeson
- 1946
- Thurgood Marshall
- 1947
- Percy Julian
- 1948
- Channing H. Tobias
- 1949
- Ralph J. Bunche
- 1951
- Mabel Keaton Staupers
- 1952
- Harry T. Moore
- 1953
- Paul R. Williams
- 1954
- Theodore K. Lawless
- 1955
- Carl Murphy
- 1956
- Jackie Robinson
- 1958
- Daisy Bates and the
Little Rock Nine
- 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
- 1997
- Carl Rowan
- 1999
- Earl G. Graves, Sr.
- 2000
- Oprah Winfrey
- 2002
- John Lewis
- 2004
- Robert L. Carter
- 2005
- Oliver W. Hill
- 2006
- Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.
- 2007
- John Conyers, Jr.
- 2008
- Ruby Dee
- 2009
- Julian Bond
- 2010
- Cicely Tyson
- 2011
- Frankie Muse Freeman
- 2012
- Harry Belafonte
- 2013
- Jessye Norman
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