HONOR

Awarded to "American negroes who perform acts of distinguished merit and achievement". Created by NAACP president Joel Elias Spingarn in 1914.

1915	Ernest Just
1916	Colonel Charles Young
1917	Harry T. Burleigh
1918	William S. B. 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 T. Hayes
1925	James Weldon Johnson
1926	Carter G. Woodson
1927	Anthony Overton
1928	Charles Chesnutt
1929	Mordecai W. Johnson
1930	Henry A. Hunt
1931	Richard B. 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 N. Wright
1942	A. Philip Randolph
1943	William H. Hastie
1944	Charles Drew
1945	Paul Robeson
1946	Thurgood Marshall
1947	Percy Julian
1948	Channing Heggie Tobias
1949	Ralph Bunche
1950	Charles Hamilton Houston
1951	Mabel K. Staupers
1952	Harry T. Moore
1953	Paul R. Williams
1954	Theodore K. Lawless
1955	Carl J. Murphy
1956	Jackie Robinson
1957	Martin Luther King
1958	Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
1959	Duke Ellington
1960	Langston Hughes
1961	Kenneth B. Clark
1962	Robert C. Weaver
1963	Medgar Evers
1964	Roy Wilkins
1965	Leontyne Price
1966	John Harold Johnson
1967	Edward W. Brooke III
1968	Sammy Davis, Jr.
1969	Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
1970	Jacob Lawrence
1971	Leon H. Sullivan
1972	Gordon Parks
1973	Wilson C. Riles
1974	Damon J. Keith
1975	Hank Aaron
1976	Alvin Ailey
1977	Alex Haley
1978	Andrew Young
1979	Rosa Parks
1980	Rayford W. Logan
1981	Coleman Young
1982	Benjamin Mays
1983	Lena Horne
1984	Tom Bradley
1985	Bill Cosby
1986	Benjamin Hooks
1987	Percy E. Sutton
1988	Frederick Douglass Patterson
1989	Jesse Jackson
1990	L. Douglas Wilder
1991	Colin Powell
1992	Barbara Jordan
1993	Dorothy Height
1994	Maya Angelou
1995	John Hope Franklin
1996	A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
1997	Carl Rowan
1998	Myrlie Evers-Williams
1999	Earl G. Graves
2000	Oprah Winfrey
2001	Vernon Jordan
2002	John Lewis
2003	Constance Baker Motley
2004	Robert L. Carter
2005	Oliver W. Hill
2006	Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.
2007	John Conyers

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