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The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the NAACP for outstanding achievement by a Black American.

The award, consisting of a gold medal, was created by Joel Elias Spingarn, Chairman of the Board of the NAACP in 1914. It was first given in 1915, and each year thereafter, with the exception of 1938.

Winners of the award include: W.E.B. DuBois, COL. Charles Young , George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Langston Hughes, Sammy Davis, Jr., Alex Haley, Andrew Young, Rosa Parks, Coleman YoungColeman Alexander Young ( 1918- 1997) served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young was born in 1918 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His family moved to Detroit in 1923, where he graduated from Eastern High School. He worked for Ford Motor Company, Lena HorneCarl Van Vechten, 1941 Lena Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917) is an American popular singer. While she has recorded and performed extensively with jazz musicians (notably Artie Shaw and Teddy Wilson), she is usually not considered a jazz singer because s, Bill Cosby, Jr.The Cosby Show Dr. William Henry Cosby, Jr. born July 12, 1937) is an African American actor and comedian. His sitcom, The Cosby Show was very successful, and notable for being one of the first to star a well-to-do middle-class African-American family., Jesse JacksonThe Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. born October 8, 1941) is a civil rights and political activist in the United States. Early Life He was born as Jesse Louis Burns in a poor household in Greenville, South Carolina. He married Jacqueline Lavinia Brown o, Colin PowellColin Luther Powell (pronounced Coe-lin, born April 5, 1937) is the 65th United States Secretary of State, sworn in on January 20, 2001, and the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States. He was nominated by, Maya AngelouMaya Angelou (born April 4, 1928) is considered one of the United States' most eminent authors and poets, and has long been one of the strongest voices for civil rights activism in America. She is best known for her autobiographical writings, such as I Kn, and Oprah WinfreyOprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the United States. She was meant to be named Orpah but it was misspelled on her birth certificate as Oprah''. An African American woman bor.

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Spingarn MedalThe Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the NAACP for outstanding achievement by a Black American. The award, consisting of a gold medal, was created by Joel Elias Spingarn, Chairman of the Board of the NAACP in 1914. It was first given in 1915, and eac  
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