Word: spingarn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honors had already been heaped on Actor Harrison. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave him its Spingarn Medal as the outstanding Negro of 1930. Howard University made him a Master of Arts. From North Carolina State College of Agriculture & Engineering and Lincoln University he received Doctorates of Dramatic Literature. Boston University presented him its Sigma Key. He was asked to speak at Rotary Clubs, to colleges and congregations wherever the show went, and his most prized possession is the Bible from the Clergy Club of New York, with the names of all its members inscribed. Governors...
...SPINGARN Literary Director...
...Reader Spingarn feel elation; a careless proofreader, rebuke...
...persuade one that this activity represents a real growth which in the natural course of things must flower. He leaves one with his knowledge of American literature refreshed and pointed up but as puzzled as heretofore about what precisely is the lowest common denominator of, let us say, Babitt, Spingarn, Brooks and Eliot...
Honored. Richard B. Harrison, Negro actor (The Lord, in The Green Pastures) ; with the Spingarn Medal for 1930, awarded for the greatest Negro accomplishment...