Spingarn Medal winners

1915: Ernest Everett Just
1916: Charles Young
1917: Harry Burleigh
1918: William Stanley Braithwaite
1919: Archibald Grimké
1920: W. E. B. Du Bois
1921: Charles Sidney Gilpin
1922: Mary Burnett 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 Francis White
1938: no award
1939: Marian Anderson
1940: Louis T. Wright
1941: Richard Wright
1942: A. Philip Randolph
1943: William H. Hastie
1944: Charles R. Drew
1945: Paul Robeson
1946: Thurgood Marshall
1947: Percy Lavon Julian
1948: Channing Heggie Tobias
1949: Ralph Bunche
1950: Charles Hamilton Houston
1951: Mabel Keaton Staupers
1952: Harry T. Moore
1953: Paul R. Williams
1954: Theodore K. Lawless
1955: Carl J. Murphy
1956: Jackie Robinson
1957: Martin Luther King Jr.
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 H. Johnson
1967: Edward Brooke
1968: Sammy Davis Jr.
1969: Clarence Mitchell Jr.
1970: Jacob Lawrence
1971: Leon Sullivan
1972: Gordon Parks
1973: Wilson Riles
1974: Damon Keith
1975: no award
1976: Hank Aaron
1977: Alvin Ailey and Alex Haley
1978: no award
1979: Andrew Young and Rosa Parks
1980: Rayford Logan
1981: Coleman Young
1982: Benjamin Elijah Mays
1983: Lena Horne
1984: no award
1985: Tom Bradley and Bill Cosby
1986: Benjamin Hooks
1987: Percy Sutton
1988: Frederick D. Patterson
1989: Jesse Jackson
1990: 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 Sr.
2000: Oprah Winfrey
2001: Vernon Jordan
2002: John Lewis
2003: Constance Baker Motley
2004: Robert L. Carter
2005: Oliver Hill
2006: Ben Carson
2007: John Conyers
2008: Ruby Dee
2009: Julian Bond
2010: Cicely Tyson
2011: Frankie Muse Freeman
2012: Harry Belafonte
2013: Jessye Norman
2014: Quincy Jones
2015: Sidney Poitier
2016: Nathaniel R. Jones
2017: no award
2018: Willie Brown
2019: Patrick Gaspard
2020: no award
2021: Cato T. Laurencin
2022: Jim Clyburn

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