2009
Dalai Lama |
2009
Myrlie Evers-Williams |
2009
Julius Erving |
2008
Diane Nash
|
2008
Al Gore |
2008
BB King |
2007
Dr. John Hope Franklin
|
2007
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
|
2007
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr.
|
2006
Dr. Bernard Kouchner
|
2006
Stevie Wonder
|
2006
Dr. Joseph Lowery
|
2005
Paul Rusesabagina
|
2005
Oprah Winfrey
|
2005
Ruby Dee And Ossie
Davis(posthumously)
|
2004
Bono
|
2004
John Lewis
|
2003
Maxine A. Smith
|
2003
Bill Clinton
|
2002
Julian Bond
|
2002
Rigoberta Menchú
|
2001
Sidney Poitier
|
2001
Oscar Arias
|
2000
Nelson Mandela
|
1999
Lech Walesa
|
1999
Harry Belafonte
|
1998
Benjamin Hooks
|
1998
Mikhail Gorbachev
|
1997
Jackie Robinson
|
1997
Colin L. Powell
|
1996
Andrew Young
|
1995
Yitzhak Rabin
|
1995
Elie Weisel
|
1995
Dorothy Height
|
1994
Jimmy Carter
|
1993
Thurgood Marshall
|
1993
Marian Wright Edelman
|
1992
Desmond Tutu
|
1992
Barbara Jordan
|
1991
Rosa Parks
|
1991
Coretta Scott King
|
1991
James Farmer
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