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Article: The Spingarn Medal.(NAACP award)(Brief Article)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. Carter G. Woodson. Mary McLeod Bethune. Paul Robeson. Thurgood Marshall. Rev. Martin Luther King Lena Horne. John H. Johnson. Jackie Robinson. Rev. Jesse Jackson. Barbara Jordan. Gen. Colin Powell. What do these people--from the worlds of education, science, politics, sports, business, the military, the church and the law--have in common? They are all among the 83 recipients of the NAACP's highest honor--the Spingarn Medal, an award instituted in 1914 by the late Joel Elias Spingarn, then chairman of the nation's most important civil rights organization. I am both greatly honored and infinitely humbled to have been chosen to receive the ...