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The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for an outstanding achievement by an African American. The award was created in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the NAACP. It was first awarded to biologist Ernest E.
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The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National...
- Spingarn Medal - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Spingarn Medal, which was established on June 29, 1914, is named for Joel Elias Spingarn, a white writer, literary critic, educator, and civil rights activist who served as chairman of the Board of Directors (1913–19), treasurer (1919–30), and president (1930–39) of the NAACP.
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In 1914 he established the Spingarn Medal, awarded annually by the NAACP for outstanding achievement by an African American. During World War I, according to an NAACP publication, he was instrumental in seeing that "a training camp for Negro officers at Des Moines was established and about 1,000 Negro officers commissioned."
The Spingarn Medal is named for Joel E. Spingarn (1874 – 1939), who originated the idea of it. Spingarn, who was white, was professor and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 1909. Spingarn Medal Winners. 1915 Ernest E. Just. 1916 Charles Young. 1917 Harry T. Burleigh. 1918 William S. Braithwhite.
NAACP Spingarn Medal. In 1979 Rosa Parks received the sixty-fourth Spingarn Medal, the NAACP’s highest honor, at the seventieth annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky. Federal Judge Damon Keith, a friend and former medal recipient, made the presentation, and Vice President Walter Mondale delivered the address.
26 de dic. de 2014 · By Michael Pollak. Dec. 26, 2014. Q.I read that Quincy Jones, the multifaceted music producer and entertainment executive, was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 2014. What is the Spingarn Medal...
