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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.
National Civil Rights Museum announced the 2022 Freedom Award honorees: historian Taylor Branch, FedEx founder Fred Smith and author Isabel Wilkerson.
2002, he received the National Freedom Award, from the National Civil Rights Museum. [67] 2006, he was awarded the National Leadership Award, from the National LGBTQ Task Force; 2008, he was awarded The Mario Cuomo Act of Courage Award, from Death Penalty Focus [68] 2009, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal, from the NAACP. [69]
2007 Prince of Asturias Award in Spain (environment) [19] 2008 Dan David Prize: "Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment" [20] 2008 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award (Theme: "A Climate of Change") [21]
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]
Honorees and guests gathered at the Orpheum in Memphis for the annual National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award ceremony Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022.
Jones, 93, was honored for his activism during the Civil Rights Movement. He's a lawyer who provided legal counsel to Martin Luther King Jr. and helped write the opening paragraphs of the “I Have a Dream” speech that King delivered at the Lincoln Memorial at the 1963 March on Washington.