Word: spingarn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...
...Association for the Advancement of Colored People ended its annual deliberations. Many a notable such as Julius Rosenwald and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, friendly to Negroes, had been heard. Resolutions were passed and a million dollar program for promoting more perfect race equality was adopted. The climax came when the Spingarn medal, the symbol of Negro distinction, was presented to Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson for "ten years' service in collecting and publishing records of the Negro in America...
Sinclair Lewis, Edward W. Bok, Eugene O'Neill were among the judges. Seven hundred Negroes were the contestants. The awards were the Amy Spingarn prizes for Art and Literature in a contest fathered by The Crisis. Last week in Manhattan the awards were made. The first prize winners...
...Europe, Conductor Walter Damrosch stood beside a Negro, extended to him a small disk of metal. Passengers who observed the ceremony could readily perceive that this was no casual donation of a gratuity. The little disk was, indeed, the highest formal honor which a Negro can achieve?the Spingarn medal, awarded annually* to that Negro who, in the opinion of a committee, has better deserved distinction than any other of his race. Tenor Roland Hayes, the recipient, expressed his thanks...
...financier (James H. Dillard), an educator (John Hope, President of Morehouse College), and an editor (W. E. DuBois of The Crisis'), awards a prize to "an American of African descent who has performed the highest achievement in some form of human endeavor." This prize is known as the Spingarn medal...