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2. 2024 Freedom Award ceremony: Spike Lee, Xernona Clayton ... - AOL

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   Spike Lee, Xernona Clayton and Sherrilyn Ifill received the Freedom Award from National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis during a ceremony on Oct. 17.

3. Spike Lee tells students to 'pursue your dream' at Freedom ...

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   Freedom Award honoree Spike Lee answers a question during the National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award Student Forum on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 at FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn.

4. National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Awards 2022: A ... - AOL

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   Honorees and guests gathered at the Orpheum in Memphis for the annual National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award ceremony Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022.

5. List of awards and honours received by Nelson Mandela

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   Received World Methodist Peace Award, London, 29 June; International Freedom Award, Memphis, Tennessee, 22 November; Elected an Honorary Member of the Bertrand Russell Society, Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Awarded Honorary Doctor of Letters from the Australian National University, 6 ...

6. Xernona Clayton - Wikipedia

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   Xernona Clayton Brady (née Brewster, born August 30, 1930) is an American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive.During the Civil Rights Movement, she worked for the National Urban League and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where she became involved in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

7. James Lawson (activist) - Wikipedia

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   Lawson became pastor of Centenary Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee in 1962. In 1968, when black sanitation workers began the Memphis sanitation strike for higher wages and union recognition after two of their co-workers were accidentally crushed to death, Reverend Lawson served as chairman of their strike committee. He co-founded the ...

8. Freedom Awards 2022: Civil Rights Museum names honorees - AOL

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   National Civil Rights Museum announced the 2022 Freedom Award honorees: historian Taylor Branch, FedEx founder Fred Smith and author Isabel Wilkerson.

9. Maxine Smith - Wikipedia

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   Smith was presented with a Freedom Award by the National Civil Rights Museum in 2003, and awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by her alma mater, Spelman College, in 2004. [1] Smith was featured in the 2008 documentary about the Civil Rights Movement, The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306. [2] Smith was featured in The Memphis 13 [6] documentary.