The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
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Year | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
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1962 | Book | Jane Jacobs | Death and Life of Great American Cities | ||
2019 | Claudia E. Irizarry Aponte | 2019 Hillman Award for Social Justice Reporting | |||
2012 | Officers’ Award | Tom Morello | Tom Morello | ||
1963 | Book | Michael Harrington | The Other America | ||
2020 | Officers’ Award | The nearly 50,000 UAW members who stood up and took on General Motors in a strike that lasted for 40 days | 2020 Hillman Officers’ Award | ||
2008 | Officers’ Award | Writers Guild of America | Writers Guild of America | ||
1977 | Broadcast | Paul Leaf | Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys | ||
1964 | Book | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-lntellectualism in American Life | ||
2021 | Officers’ Award | Robert Parris Moses | Founder and President, The Algebra Project | ||
2007 | Officers’ Award | Harry Belafonte | Harry Belafonte | ||
1978 | Broadcast | Bill Moyers | The Fire Next Door | ||
1966 | Book | Kenneth B. Clark | Dark Ghetto | ||
2022 | Eric Foner | 2022 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History | |||
2003 | Officers’ Award | Sol Stetin | President Emeritus, Textile Workers Union of America | ||
1965 | Book | D r. James W. Silver | Mississippi: The Closed Society | ||
2023 | David Cole | 2023 George Barrett Award Recipient | |||
2002 | Officers’ Award | Carl Pope | Sierra Club Executive Director | ||
2024 | Philippe Sands KC | 2024 George Barrett Award Recipient | |||
2001 | Officers’ Award | Delores Huerta | United Farmworkers of America | ||
2006 | Book | N/A | Award withheld | ||
2000 | Officers’ Award | Studs Terkel | Studs Terkel | ||
1961 | Book | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | ||
1999 | Officers’ Award | Rev. Jesse Jackson | Rev. Jesse Jackson | ||
1999 | Officers’ Award | Students Against Sweatshops | Students Against Sweatshops | ||
1981 | Broadcast | MacNeil-Lehrer Report | Special award for continued excellence in television journalism |