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Past Honorees & Dinner Highlights

2008 Dinner

• John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI)
• Patricia Rouse
• Soledad O'Brien

2007 Dinner

• William J. Clinton
• Dr. John Hope Franklin
• L. Tammy Duckworth

2006 Dinner

• Monica Lozano
• Film “Crash”

2005 Dinner

• Julian Bond
• Tom Daschle
• Ginny Thornburgh

2004 Dinner

• Tom Joyner
• Gerald McEntee
• The Honorable Connie Morella

2003 Dinner

• Rep. John Lewis
• The Medill Innocence Project The Center on Wrongful Convictions (Northwestern University)
• Sesame Workshop

2002 Dinner

• Danny Glover
• Elizabeth Birch
• David Saperstein

2001 Dinner

• Maya Lin
• William L. Taylor
• Franklin D. Raines

2000 Dinner

• Vernon Jordan
• Judith L. Lichtman
• Wilma Mankiller
• Edward James Olmos
• John J. Sweeney

1999 Dinner

• Governor Gary Locke (D-WA)
• Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
• Jeannie Vanvelkinburgh

1998 Dinner

• Steven Spielberg
• Debbie Allen
• Honorable Bob Lanier

1997 Dinner

• Tipper Gore
• Dolores Huerta

1996 Dinner

• Honorable Kweisi Mfume
• Myrlie Evers-Williams
• Honorable Norman Y. Mineta

1995 Dinner

• Ralph G. Neas Jr.

1994 Dinner

• Honorable Henry Cisneros
• Honorable Hamilton Fish Jr.
• Elaine Jones

1993 Dinner

• Justin Dart Jr.
• Dorothy I. Height
• Raul Yzaguirre

1992 Dinner

• Benjamin L. Hooks
• Patrisha A. Wright
• Kenneth Young

1991 Dinner

• William T. Coleman Jr.
• Antonia Hernandez
• Dick Warden

1990 Dinner

• Honorable Augustus Hawkins

1989 Dinner

• Honorable Barbara Jordan
• Honorable Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

1988 Dinner

• Ellen Goodman
• Honorable Edward M. Kennedy

1987 Dinner

• Herbert L. Block
• Wiley Branton
• James Farmer

1986 Dinner

• Mary Frances Berry
• Honorable Charles McC. Mathias Jr.
• Honorable Parren Mitchell

1985 Dinner

• Arnold Aronson
• Marian Wright Edelman
• J.C. Turner
• Willie Velasquez

1984 Dinner

• Joseph L. Rauh Jr.

1983 Dinner

• Douglas Fraser
• Rosina Tucker

1982 Dinner

• Arthur S. Flemming
• Honorable Don Edwards

1981 Dinner

• AFL-CIO (Lane Kirkland)

1980 Dinner

• Clarence M. Mitchell Jr.
• George Meany

1979 Dinner

• Rev. Msgr. George Higgins
• Andrew Biemiller

1978 Dinner

• Honorable Edward W. Brooke
• Honorable Peter Rodino

1977 Dinner

• Honorable Philip Hart