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. 

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
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 Nine
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.
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