Spin thread medal
The Spingarn Medal (German: Spingarn Medal) is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievements by an African American . The award consists of a gold medal and was launched in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn (1875–1939), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NAACP.
List of award winners
NAACP, list of winners from 1915:
- 1915 Ernest Just (biologist)
- 1916 Charles Young (US colonel and military attaché)
- 1917 Harry T. Burleigh (composer, pianist, singer)
- 1918 William Stanley Braithwaite (poet, writer, literary critic)
- 1919 Archibald H. Grimké (US Consul, President of the American Negro Academy (ANA))
- 1920 William EB Du Bois (representative of the black civil rights movement , sociologist, philosopher, journalist and pacifist)
- 1921 Charles S. Gilpin (actor)
- 1922 Mary B. Talbert (President of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW))
- 1923 George Washington Carver (botanist, chemist)
- 1924 Roland Hayes (singer, soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra )
- 1925 James Weldon Johnson (poet)
- 1926 Carter G. Woodson (historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History)
- 1927 Anthony Overton (entrepreneur, president of the Victory Life Insurance Company)
- 1928 Charles W. Chesnutt (Author)
- 1929 Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (educator)
- 1930 Henry A. Hunt (high school principal)
- 1931 Richard B. Harrison (actor)
- 1932 Robert Russa Moton (Head of the Tuskegee Institute)
- 1933 Max Yergan (missionary)
- 1934 William TB Williams (Tuskegee Institute)
- 1935 Mary McLeod Bethune (educator and activist)
- 1936 John Hope (educator)
- 1937 Walter F. White (managing director of the NAACP)
- 1938 not awarded
- 1939 Marian Anderson (opera singer)
- 1940 Louis T. Wright (surgeon)
- 1941 Richard N. Wright (writer)
- 1942 A. Philip Randolph (union leader)
- 1943 William H. Hastie (lawyer and educator)
- 1944 Charles R. Drew (physicist)
- 1945 Paul Robeson (singer, actor)
- 1946 Thurgood Marshall (lawyer, later also at the Supreme Court)
- 1947 Percy L. Julian (chemist)
- 1948 Channing Heggie Tobias (member of the President's Committee on Civil Rights (PCCR))
- 1949 Ralph J. Bunche (diplomat and Nobel Prize winner 1950)
- 1950 Charles Hamilton Houston (Chairman of the NAACP Legal Committee)
- 1951 Mabel Keaton Staupers (Head of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN))
- 1952 Harry T. Moore (NAACP)
- 1953 Paul R. Williams (architect)
- 1954 Theodore K. Lawless (physicist, educator, philanthropist)
- 1955 Carl J. Murphy (writer, editor)
- 1956 Jackie R. Robinson (athlete)
- 1957 Martin Luther King, Jr. (civil rights activist, 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner)
- 1958 Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (anti-racial activist)
- 1959 Edward "Duke" Ellington (composer and pianist)
- 1960 Langston Hughes (poet and playwright)
- 1961 Kenneth B. Clark (Professor of Psychology at City College of New York)
- 1962 Robert C. Weaver (head of a housing and finance agency)
- 1963 Medgar W. Evers (Mississippi civil rights activist)
- 1964 Roy Wilkins (managing director of NAACP)
- 1965 Leontyne Price (concert and opera singer)
- 1966 John Harold Johnson (Founder and President of Johnson Publishing Company )
- 1967 Edward W. Brooke III (First African American to win the US Senate election)
- 1968 Sammy Davis, Jr. (entertainer)
- 1969 Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. (civil rights activist, lobbyist, NAACP regional director)
- 1970 Jacob Lawrence (painter)
- 1971 Leon Howard Sullivan (clergyman, civil rights activist)
- 1972 Gordon Parks (photographer, writer, filmmaker and composer)
- 1973 Wilson Riles (educator)
- 1974 Damon Keith (lawyer, federal judge)
- 1975 Hank Aaron (athlete)
- 1976 Alvin Ailey, Jr. (choreographer and dancer)
- 1977 Alex Haley (writer)
- 1978 Andrew Young (diplomat, civil rights activist)
- 1979 Rosa L. Parks (civil rights activist)
- 1980 Rayford W. Logan (educator, historian and writer)
- 1981 Coleman A. Young (politician)
- 1982 Benjamin Mays (educator, civil rights activist, President of Morehouse College )
- 1983 Lena Horne (singer)
- 1984 Tom Bradley (Mayor of Los Angeles)
- 1985 William H. Cosby, Jr. (entertainer, writer)
- 1986 Benjamin Hooks (Managing Director of the NAACP)
- 1987 Percy Sutton (civil rights activist, businessman)
- 1988 Frederick Douglass Patterson (educator, veterinarian)
- 1989 Jesse Jackson (civil rights activist and presidential candidate)
- 1990 Douglas Wilder (civil servant)
- 1991 Colin L. Powell (General, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State)
- 1992 Barbara C. Jordan (civil servant)
- 1993 Dorothy I. Height (President of the National Council of Negro Women )
- 1994 Maya Angelou (writer)
- 1995 John Hope Franklin (historian, educator)
- 1996 Aloysius Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (lawyer, civil servant)
- 1997 Carl Rowan (journalist)
- 1998 Myrlie Evers-Williams (civil rights activist, chair of the NAACP)
- 1999 Earl G. Graves (Chairman of Black Enterprise Magazine )
- 2000 Oprah Winfrey (presenter, actress and entrepreneur)
- 2001 Vernon Jordan (civil servant)
- 2002 John Lewis (politician, civil rights activist, member of the House of Representatives)
- 2003 Constance Baker Motley (Federal Judge, Senator)
- 2004 Robert L. Carter (federal judge, co-founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers )
- 2005 Oliver Hill (civil rights activist)
- 2006 Benjamin Carson (neurosurgeon)
- 2007 John Conyers (politician, congressman)
- 2008 Ruby Dee (actress)
- 2009 Julian Bond (civil rights activist)
- 2010 Cicely Tyson (actress)
- 2011 Frankie Muse Freeman (lawyer and civil rights activist)
- 2012 not awarded
- 2013 Harry Belafonte (singer, songwriter, actor)
- 2014 Jessye Norman (opera singer)
- 2015 Quincy Jones (music producer, composer, jazz trumpeter, arranger and band leader)
- 2016 Sidney Poitier (actor)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of winners from 1915 onwards ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2014 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NAACP
