Honorees

Name Year
Fannie Phelps Adams 2010
Mac Arnold 2010
John W. Bluford, III 2010
Warren Bolton 2010
Timothy R. McConnell 2010
William and Michael Dean Perry 2010
Brandolyn Thomas Pinkston 2010
Eugene Robinson 2010
Darius Rucker 2010
O'Neal Smalls 2010
James Solomon, Jr. 2010
Darrin Thomas 2010
Sandra Blake 2009
Anna Boyd 2009
James A. Bennett 2009
Dr. Ethel M. Henderson Taylor 2009
Ron & Natalie Daise 2009
Dr. Luns C. Richardson 2009
Bernice Putman 2009
James Brown 2009
Sallie Elliott 2009
Craig Melvin 2009
Reginald Lloyd 2009
John Gilliam 2009
Josephine Helen Wood 2008
Ann Pringle Washington 2008
Rev. Nelson B. Rivers, III 2008
Milton Kimpson 2008
Jaime Harrison 2008
George Glymph 2008
Adrenee Glover Freeman 2008
Sarah Mae Flemming 2008
William and Beverly Clyburn 2008
Harry Carson 2008
Paul Benjamin 2008
Nathaniel Abraham, Sr. 2008
Charles and Valerie Aiken 2007
George A. Elmore 2007
Lydia Sharon Garrett 2007
Patricia Sowell Harris 2007
Chuck Jackson 2007
Senator John Wesley Matthews, Jr. 2007
Alex Snipe, Jr. 2007
Bobby B. Stafford, Esq. 2007
Henry N. Tisdale, Ph.D. 2007
Louis L. Waring, Jr. 2007
Cecil J. Williams 2007
Lee Thompson Young 2007
Pearl Fryar 2006
Marlena Smalls 2006
Representative Joe E. Brown 2006
Curtis Inabinett 2006
Etu Evans 2006
Dr. Maceo Nance 2006
Jarvis Brothers 2006
Ruth Ann Butler 2006
Frank Washington 2006
Willie Dereef 2006
Beryl Dakers 2006
Augusta Baker 2006
Paul Brawley and Wendy C. Brawley 2005
James Roland Clark, M.D. 2005
Bennie Lee Cunningham, Jr. 2005
Gloria Schumpert James 2005
Willie Jeffries 2005
Willie L. Johnson 2005
Louis George Gregory 2005
Isom Bartrone Lowman, Jr. 2005
Horace Ott 2005
Diane E. Sumpter 2005
Abraham J. Turner 2005
Armstrong Williams 2005
Ethel Martin Bolden 2004
Johnnie McFadden, Ph.D. 2004
Willis H. Crosby 2004
Alice Wyche Hurley 2004
Martin Douglass Cooper 2004
Janie L. Mines 2004
Mark Myers & Sandra Myers 2004
Thales Thomas Pearson 2004
Colonel Walter L. Watson, Jr. 2004
Isaac W. Williams 2004
Luther J. Battiste, III, Esquire 2004
Anna DeCosta Banks 2004
Jasper Cureton 2003
Margaret Abner Dixon, Ed. D. 2003
Rev. Joseph A. Darby, Jr. 2003
Colonel Claude J. Eichelberger 2003
Ozie Jackson, Sr. 2003
Senator Kay Patterson 2003
Brenda Pressley 2003
Johnny Michael Sanders 2003
Rev. Julius L. Scipio 2003
Marva Smalls 2003
Honorable Lucille Simmons Whipper 2003
Hemphill P. Pride, D.D.S. 2003
Kitty Black-Perkins 2002
Reverend William M. Bowman, Sr. 2002
Dr. Noble P. Cooper 2002
Althea Gibson 2002
Maranda Phillips Holmes 2002
Janice Huff 2002
Johnnie Ruth Jenkins 2002
Cassandra Maxwell 2002
Drink Small 2002
Spann Watson 2002
Dr. Clemmie E. Webber 2002
Justice Jonathan Jasper Wright 2002
James F. Brown, D.D.S 2001
The Honorable Merl F. Code 2001
Thomas (Tom) Feelings 2001
Anna May Manigault-Hurley 2001
The Honorable Robert N. Jenkins, Sr. 2001
Mamie "Peanut" Johnson 2001
James T. McLawhorn, Jr. 2001
Patty Jaye Garrett Patterson 2001
Bill Pinkney 2001
Bishop Sanco King Rembert 2001
Brigadier General Velma L. Richardson 2001
Tommy Scott Young 2001
James E. Talley 2000
Maxine Smith Martin 2000
General Lloyd "Fig" Newton 2000
C. (Curtis) Tyrone Gilmore, Sr. 2000
Jacqueline Rhinehart 2000
Bernice Stokes Robinson 2000
A. Tony Fisher 2000
Catherine McKee McCottry, M.D. 2000
Bishop Frederick Calhoun James 2000
Lillian Brock Flemming 2000
Dr. Kelly Miller 2000
Jesse Washington, Jr. 2000
Allen Louis Code, Sr. 1999
The Honorable Willie T. Smith, Jr. 1999
Arthur J. H. Clement, Jr. 1999
James A. Blake, Sr. 1999
John Roy Harper II 1999
Jean Sanders Hopkins 1999
Eddie McGirt 1999
Frieda Mitchell 1999
E. (Edmund) Perry Palmer 1999
Shirley Tyus 1999
Geraldyne I. Pierce Zimmerman 1999
Paul Ross 1999
Gilroye A. Griffin, Jr 1998
William "T" Thompson 1998
Lee Haney 1998
Sylvia Woods 1998
John Artemus 1998
Peggy Dillard-Toone 1998
Raphael C. Lee 1998
Emory Shaw Campbell 1998
Beatrice Rice Thompson 1998
Juanita Willmon-Goggins 1998
Dwight E. Woods 1998
Prezell Russell Robinson 1998
Nina Mae McKinney 1997
Joshua W. Martin III 1997
Charity Edna Adams Earley 1997
Larry Doby 1997
Isaac Samuel "I.S." Leevy Johnson 1997
Jonathan Green 1997
Fouche'na Everlyne "Che" Sheppard 1997
Taft M. Watson 1997
William "Bill" Terrell 1997
Margaree Seawright Crosby 1997
Israel Brooks, Jr. 1997
J. Arthur Jones 1997
Jonas Thomas Kennedy 1996
Willie Larry Randolph, Jr. 1996
Larry Francis Lebby 1996
Richard Samuel Roberts 1996
Reuben M. Greenberg 1996
Matilda Arabelle Evans, M.D. 1996
Hattie Logan Duckett 1996
Walker Emanuel Solomon, Sr. 1996
Vivian Glover 1996
Richard Kerns 1996
Earl Matthew Middleton 1996
Marjorie Amos-Frazier 1996
Dr. Lawrence W. Long 1995
Dr. Thaddeus J. Bell 1995
Alberta Tucker Grimes 1995
Bishop Joseph Benjamin Bethea 1995
Major General Irene Trowell-Harris 1995
Kimberly Clarice Aiken 1995
Edwin Roberts Russell 1995
Arthur Rose, Sr. 1995
Ernest A. Finney, Jr. 1995
James E. Clyburn 1995
Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine 1995
Mary Jackson 1995
Major General Matthew A. Zimmerman, Jr. 1994
The Honorable Harvey B. Gantt 1994
Charles P. Austin, Sr. 1994
Dori Sanders 1994
Everett L. Dargan, M.D. 1994
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor 1994
Ernest Henderson, Sr. 1994
Donnie Shell 1994
James E. Bostic, Jr., Ph. D. 1994
Sarah Reese 1994
Leo F. Twiggs, E. D. 1994
Linda Dingle Gadson 1994
Dr. Sara Dunlap Jackson 1993
Wilfred Junius Walker 1993
Edward Sawyer Cooper, M.D. 1993
Lila Mae Brock 1993
Eartha Kitt 1993
Dr. Thomas Elliot Kerns 1993
Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. 1993
Art Shell 1993
Janie Glymph Goree 1993
Listervelt Middleton 1993
Harold R. Boulware, Sr. 1993
Lugenia Key Hammond 1993
William H. Johnson 1992
Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell 1992
Myrtle Hall Smith 1992
J. T. Pace 1992
Charlayne Hunter-Gault 1992
Dr. Naomi Garrett 1992
Dr. Henrie Monteith Tredwell 1992
Bernice Robinson 1992
Robert Smalls 1992
Smokin' Joe Frazier 1992
Dr. Charles G. Gomillion 1992
Philip Simmons 1992
Dr. John Stevenson 1991
Dr. Ernest Everett Just 1991
Annie Greene Nelson 1991
James T. McCain 1991
The Honorable Harold A. Stevens 1991
Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates 1991
Ruby Middleton Forsythe 1991
Mary McLeod Bethune 1991
Edwin A. Harleston 1991
Marion Wright Edelman 1991
Dr. Stephen J. Wright 1991
Jane Edna Hunter 1991
Alex English 1990
W. Melvin Brown 1990
Jesse Jackson 1990
Dizzy Gillespie 1990
I. DeQuincey Newman 1990
Ron McNair 1990
Charles Bolden 1990
Matthew Perry 1990
Septima Poinsette Clark 1990
Modjeska Simkins 1990
Benjamin E. Mays 1990
Alma Byrd 1990