Price wins Spingarn Medal for distinguished achievement
New York soprano Leontyne Price was named winner of this year’s Spingarn Medal by Roy Wilkins NAACP executive director and 1964 gold medalist. The award, established in 1914 by J. E. Spingarn, honors a Negro American for notable accomplishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Leontyne Price
Metropolitan Opera
Spingarn
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
J.E. Spingarn
NAACP
Also Mentioned on This Page
Moscow
Louis Latchman Armstrong
Armstrong
Vladimir I. Stepakov
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Izvestia
Stepakovy
Communist Party
Alexei I. Adzhubei
Khrushchev
Urbana
Harold Heilman
Ernest Gillett
Milo Heilman
Vern Heilman
EUB
Earlton
David Heilman
Randy
Council Grove
Leo Fickel
Robert George
Kim
Patti
Fickels
Tulsa
George
Midland
Tex
Mabie Stich
Clara
Carl Quinn
Chanute
Maud Heilman
Esther Stich
Hazel Heilman
Alta Patty
Barbara Heilman
Peggy
Karen
Linda
G. A. Zugmier
Zugmier
Gregory
Colorado Springs
Ronnie
Betty
George Zugmier
Thayer
Don Dunivant
Terri
Darrel Dunivant
Bob Nordstedt
Debby
Brenda
Terilee
Valley Center
George Nordstedt
Larry
Cheryl Rae Hutchens
Darold Melton
Christian Church
Galesburg
Carl
Clara Quinn
Homer Bailey
Oscar Yoder
Dean
Bessie Yoder
Wichita
Garland Burdue
Fred Hummer
Denver
James C. Flanigan
Foodtown Circle
U.S.D.A
APPLE
Dans
Canad Bone
Jar
Nabisco
Swift
Debbie
Lier
Gerber
The
Chanute Tribune
Sanborn
Regulaw
Dog Ade
Musselman Apple
Bone Chuck
Vegetabe Lteets Lhd
del Monte Chun
del Monte Crea
Foodtown
Shop Foodtown
Rodeo New
Annals
Chucks
del Monte
SUPER
Reo
del Monte Fanc
del Monte Fruit
OSC
Rae
Donald Duck
Old South
Meadow
Carton
Ake
Imperial Sugar CO
Sugar Land Teas
Chuck
Gillette
Bimene
Fed
Chanute Tribune Pa
Erie & Vicinity
Bonnie Yarnell
Kenneth Dutton
Willard Bright
Doug and
Chloe Ann
Elk City
al Wilburn
Kiwanis Division 3
Erie Club
Parsons
John Shireman
Inez Ashcraft
Aurora, Colo
Joe Rinck
Raymond Simmons
Vernon Lohse
East 4Th
Tommy McDaniel
Ross McDaniel
Jura Erie
State Extension Service
Fred DeLane
Neosho County
McDaniel
Soil Conservation District
Soil Conservation Service
Sam Ricketts
John
Lucy
Mitch
Kentucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg National Park
Philadelphia
Norman Vincent Peale
Washington, D. C
Capitol
Joe Skubitz
White House
Williamsburg
Jamestown
Great Smokey Mountains
Neosho Valley
Busy Bees
David Waggoner
Steve Tunnell
Robert Lopeman
Susan
Linda Smith
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!