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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.
The National Civil Rights Museum announced Spike Lee, Xernona Clayton and Sherrilyn Ifill will be the 2024 recipients of the Freedom Award.
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.
National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, 1994; UNESCO Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, 1994; Grand-Cross of the Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa of Panama, 1995; Four Freedoms Award; Freedom Medal, 1995; Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Award, Africare, 1996; Humanitarian of the Year, GQ Awards, 1996; Kiwanis ...
Museum exhibit Replica of the Greyhound Bus destroyed by white supremacists during the Freedom Rides. The complex is located at 450 Mulberry Street, with all properties except the Lorraine Motel owned by the Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation.
In 2009, Evers-Williams received the National Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. [14] Ebony magazine named Evers-Williams as one of the "100 Most Fascinating Black Women of the 20th Century." She has received seven honorary doctorates. [15]
National Civil Rights Museum announced the 2022 Freedom Award honorees: historian Taylor Branch, FedEx founder Fred Smith and author Isabel Wilkerson.
John F. Kennedy Freedom Award, Catholic Council of Civil Liberties, 1965; Merrill Fellowship, Harvard University, 1966; President, ACLU of Mississippi, 1973–1977 "Icon of the Civil Rights Movement", National Civil Rights Museum, 20th Annual Freedom Awards, 2011. The museum cited King’s work with Medgar Evers in advancing civil rights in ...