Spingarn Medal

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NAACP award award civil rights award

The Spingarn Medal is a prestigious annual award presented by the NAACP to honor outstanding achievement by African Americans in any field.

Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form As subject As object
NAACP Spingarn Medal 0 3
1964 (Spingarn Medal) 0 1
African American achievement awards 0 1
Spingarn Medal 1914 0 1
Spingarn Medal awards 0 1

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf NAACP award →
award →
civil rights award →
awardedBy NAACP →
surface form: NAACP Board of Directors
awardedFor distinguished merit and achievement among African Americans →
outstanding achievement by African Americans →
awardingBody NAACP →
surface form: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
category African-American history →
American awards →
NAACP awards →
country United States of America →
surface form: United States
eligibility Black Americans →
surface form: African Americans
endowment Spingarn family fund →
establishedBy Joel Elias Spingarn →
field any field of human endeavor →
firstAwarded 1915 →
frequency annual →
genre civil rights recognition →
hasPart citation →
gold medal →
honorarium →
inception 1914 →
location United States of America →
surface form: United States
motto for the highest or noblest achievement by an American Negro →
namedAfter Joel Elias Spingarn →
notableRecipient A. Philip Randolph →
Barack Obama →
Duke Ellington →
George Washington Carver →
Jackie Robinson →
John Lewis →
Marian Anderson →
Martin Luther King Jr. →
Rosa Parks →
Thurgood Marshall →
W. E. B. Du Bois →
presentedBy NAACP →
selectionProcess committee recommendation →
significance one of the highest honors for African Americans →
sponsor NAACP →

Referenced by (29)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Spingarn family fund → associatedWith → Spingarn Medal →
Benjamin Hooks → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Coretta Scott King → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Daisy Bates → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
George Washington Carver → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Gordon Parks → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
James Farmer → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
this entity surface form: NAACP Spingarn Medal
Jesse Jackson → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
this entity surface form: NAACP Spingarn Medal
Julian Bond → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Langston Hughes → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Marian Anderson → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Maya Angelou → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Ralph Bunche → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Richard Wright → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Rosa Parks → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Roy Wilkins → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Thoroughgood Marshall → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
subject surface form: Thurgood Marshall
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
W. E. B. Du Bois → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Whitney Young → awardReceived → Spingarn Medal →
Thurgood Marshall → awarded → Spingarn Medal →
Whitney Young → dateAwarded → Spingarn Medal →
this entity surface form: 1964 (Spingarn Medal)
Joel Elias Spingarn → founded → Spingarn Medal →
Spingarn family fund → funds → Spingarn Medal →
this entity surface form: NAACP Spingarn Medal
Andrew Young → hasHonor → Spingarn Medal →
Joel Elias Spingarn → inception → Spingarn Medal →
this entity surface form: Spingarn Medal 1914
Joel Elias Spingarn → knownFor → Spingarn Medal →
Spingarn family fund → relatedTo → Spingarn Medal →
this entity surface form: African American achievement awards
Spingarn family fund → supports → Spingarn Medal →
this entity surface form: Spingarn Medal awards