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Past Honorees
Daily Press
- Murray Kempton, New York Post, articles on labor in the South (1950).
- A. H. Raskin, The New York Times, articles on labor (1950).
- Carl T. Rowan, Minneapolis Tribune, articles on race relations in the South (1951).
- W. Horace Carter, Tabor City (NC) Tribune, Wi l la rd G. Cole, Whiteville (NC) News and Reporter, Jay Jenkins, Raleigh (NC) News and Observer, articles and editorials exposing the Ku Klux Klan (1952).
- Ralph S. OLeary, Houston Post, a series on civil liberties (1953).
- Vic Reinemer, Charlotte (NC) News, editorials on civil liberties and civil rights (1954).
- Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, St. Louis Dispatch, editorial cartoons (special award) (1954).
- Ben H. Bagdikian, Providence Journal Bulletin, series on civil liberties (1955).
- Murray Marder, Washington Post, articles on the government security program (1955).
- Robert H. Spiegel, Des Moines Tribune, series on segregation in Des Moines (1956).
- The New York Times, editorials on the Middle East Crisis (special award) (1956).
- Harry Ashmore, Arkansas Gazette, editorials on school integration (1957).
- A. M. Secrest, Cheraw (SC) Chronicle, editorials on civil rights (1957).
- Harry L. & Gretchen Billings, The Peoples Voice (Helena, Montana), editorials on civil liberties and public welfare system (1958).
- Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution, editorials defending the public school system (1958).
- Sylvan Meyer, Gainesville (GA) Daily Times, editorials on race relations (1960).
- Patrick J. Owens, Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial, ed itorials on current issues (1961).
- Ira Harkey, Pascagoula ( M S ) Chronicle, editorials on the crisis at the
- University of Mississippi (1962).
- Horance G. Davis, Gainesville (FL) Daily Sun, editorials on civil rights (1963).
- J. O. Emmerich, Enterprise Journal (McComb, MS), editorials on the civil rights crisis there (1964).
- Robert Keveney & Douglas Walker, Dayton Daily News, a series on right-wing groups (1966).
- Harrison E. Salisbury, The New York Times, reporting from North Vietnam (special award) (1966).
- Howard James, The Christian Science Monitor, series on the Crisis in the Courts (1967).
- James K. Batten & Dwayne Walls, Charlotte Observer, The People Left Behind (1968).
- William J. Eaton, Chicago Daily News, The Appearance of Impropriety (1969).
- John Kifner, The New York Times, series on the Kent State tragedy (1970).
- Alfred Friendly, The Washington Post, Victims of the Great American Red Hunt (1971).
- Neil Sheehan, The New York Times, The Pentagon Papers (1971).
- Carl Bernstein & Robert Woodward, The Washington Post, the Watergate investigation (1972).
- Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele, The Philadelphia Inquirer, investigative reporting (1973).
- Seymour M. Hersh, The New York Times, articles on the C.I.A. (1974).
- The Boston Globe, coverage of school integration crisis (1974).
- William S. Randall & Stephen D. Solomon, Philadelphia Inquirer, investigative reporting (1975).
- John Seigenthaler, The Tennessean, for courage in publishing (1976).
- Stan Swofford, Greensboro (NC) Daily News, for a series on the Wilmington 10 (1977).
- Michael Flannery & Bruce Ingersoll, Chicago Sun Times, for a series on the working wounded (1978).
- I . F. Stone (special award) (1978).
- D e i d re Murphy, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, for a series on poverty (1979).
- The Miami Herald, for a series on police brutality (1980) .
- The Atlanta Constitution, for the series Black and Poor in Atlanta (1981).
- Rita Ciolli, Newsday, for the series The Island Trees Case (1982).
- Patrick Owens & Bob Wyrick , Newsday, The Disability Nightmare (1983).
- The Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News, Freedom Summer: A Generation Later (1984).
- Writers of the series The American Millstone, Chicago Tribune (1985) .
- Henry Weinstein, Thomas H. Maugh, II and Dan Morain, Los Angeles Times, for the series Drug Testing on the Job (1986).
- The Journal (Lorain, Ohio), The Unfinished Dream (1987).
- Anchorage Daily News, A People in Peril (1988).
- William H. and Margaret Wolf Freivogel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, series on The Shift on Civil Rights (1989).
- The Detroit Free Press, for the series Workers at Risk (1990).
- Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele, The Philadelphia Inquirer, for the series America: What Went Wrong? (1991).
- Nancy Stancill, Houston Chronicle, for the series Slaves to the Sale (1992).
- Eileen Welsome, The Albuquerque Tribune, for the series The Plutonium Experiment (1993).
- Jim Morris, Houston Chronicle, for the series Worked to Death (1994).
- Chris Kelley, The Dallas Morning News, for the series Whither the Cities? (1995).
- Rita Giordano & Alfred Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Passyunk Homes: Welfares Ground Zero, (1996).
- Jason DeParle, The New York Times, Learning Poverty Firsthand & other stories of welfare reform (1997).
- Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger, The Preacher and the Klansman & other investigative reporting on the KKK (1998).
- Maya Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, Why Children Kill (2000).
- Ellen Schultz, Wall Street Journal, selected articles on pension cuts (2001).
- David Olinger, The Denver Post, Seller Beware (2002).
- Ellen Schultz & Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal, Valued Employees: Worker Dies, Firm Profits (2003).
- Nancy Cleeland, Abigail Goldman, Evelyn Iritani and Tyler Marshall, Los Angeles Times, The Wal-Mart Effect (2004).
- David Barstow and Lowell Bergman, New York Times, Dangerous Business (2004).
- Peter G. Gosselin, Los Angeles Times, The New Deal (2005).
- Cam Simpson, Chicago Tribune, Pipeline to Peril (2006).
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Books
- John Hersey, The Wall (1950).
- Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Men (1951).
- Herbert Block, The Herblock Book (1952).
- Theodore H. White, Fire in the Ashes (1953).
- Henry Steele Commager, Freedom, Loyalty and Dissent (1954).
- John Lord OBrian, National Security and Individual Freedom (1955).
- Walter Gellhorn, Individual Freedom and Government Restraints (1956).
- Wilma Dykeman & James Stokely, Neither Black Nor White (1957).
- John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958).
- Harold M. Hyman, To Try Mens Souls (1959).
- David McEntire, Residence and Race (1960).
- William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960).
- Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961).
- Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962).
- Richard Hofstadter, Anti-lntellectualism in American Life (1963).
- Bernard D. Nossiter, The Mythmakers (1964).
- D r. James W. Silver, Mississippi: The Closed Society (1964).
- Kenneth B. Clark, Dark Ghetto (1965).
- Joseph P. Lyford, The Airtight Cage (1966).
- Ronald Steel, Pax Americana (1967).
- Alan F. Westin, Privacy and Freedom (1967).
- George R. Stewart, Not So Rich As You Think (1968).
- Congressman Richard McCarthy, The Ultimate Folly (1969).
- Ramsey Clark, Crime in America (1970).
- Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen, America Inc. (1971).
- Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake (1972).
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, (special award) (1973).
- Jervis Anderson, A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait (1973).
- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , The Imperial Presidency (1973).
- Richard J. Barnet & Ronald E. Muller, Global Reach (1974).
- Noel Mostert, Supership (1974).
- E. J. Kahn, Jr., The China Hands (1975).
- Richard Kluger, Simple Justice (1976).
- Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (1977).
- Charles E. Silberman, Criminal Violence, Criminal J u s t i c e (1978).
- William Shawcross, Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia (1979).
- Penny Lernoux, Cry of the People (1980).
- Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (1981).
- Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth (1982).
- Seymour M. Hersh, The Price of Power (1983).
- Strobe Talbott, Deadly Gambits (1984).
- Joseph Lelyveld, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (1985).
- Robert S. McNamara, Blundering Into Disaster (1986).
- Raymond Bonner, Waltzing With a Dictator (1987).
- Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie (1988).
- Thomas L. Friedman, F rom Beirut to Jerusalem (1989).
- Andrew Revkin, The Burning Season (1990).
- Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land (1991).
- Ray Marshall & Marc Tucker, Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations (1992).
- William Chafe, Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1993).
- James Traub, City on a Hill: Testing the American D ream at City College (1994).
- Fox Butterfield, All Gods Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (1995).
- Nelson Lichtenstein, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (Distinguished Honorable Mention) (1995).
- William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996).
- Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale (1997).
- Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire (1998).
- Katherine S. Newman, No Shame in my Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (2000).
- Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel (2001).
- Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement (2002).
- Steven R. Weisman, The Great Tax Wars (2003).
- David Von Drehle, Triangle (2004).
- Jason DeParle, American Dream (2005).
- Award withheld (2006).
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Photojournalism
First Awarded in 2002
- Mia Song, The Star-Ledger, Poisoned Children: The Legacy of Lead (2002).
- Don Bartletti and Sonia Nazario, Los Angeles Times, Enriques Journey (2003).
- Stanley Greene, Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 (Trolley) (2004).
- Award for Overall Excellence, Los Angeles Times (2005).
- Hector Amezcua and Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee, Los Piñeros: Men of the Pines (2006).
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Radio & Television
- Edward R. Murrow, See It Now, CBS-TV, programs on civil liberties (1953).
- Gerald W. Johnson, WAAM, Baltimore, broadcast on civil liberties and other issues (1953).
- Eric Sevareid, American Week, CBS-TV, programson civil rights issues (1954).
- WNYC, New York City, public service program (special award) (1954).
- Theodore Ayres, Face the Nation, CBS-TV, interview with Krushchev (1957).
- George A. Vicas, Radio Beat, CBS Radio, debates between American and Soviet scientists and educators (1957).
- Irving Gitlin, supervision of CBS Unit One, particularly the programs Who Killed Michael Farmer and P.O W.- A Study in Survival (1958).
- Edward P. Morgan, news broadcasts over the ABC Network (1959).
- WNTA-TV, N.Y. , PIay of the Week programs (1959).
- Walter Peters, producer, Marshal Diskin, director, Cast the First Stone, ABC-TV (1960).
- Al Wasserman, producer, Robert Young, director, and Charles Dorkins, cameraman, Angola: Journey to a Wa r, NBC-T V, White Paper #7 (1961).
- Warren Wallace, Superfluous People, WCBS-T V, New York (1962).
- John Keats, writer, George Dessart, producer, David E. Wilson, director, Conformity, WCAU-T V, Philadelphia (1962).
- Millard Lampell, No Hiding Place, on the East Side/West Side series, CBS-TV (1963).
- Joseph Wershba, Gideons Trumpet: The Poor Man & The Law, CBS-TV (1964).
- William C. Jersey, A Time for Burning, National Educational Television Network (1966).
- Jay L. McMullen, The Tenement, CBS-TV News (1967).
- Harold & Lynne Rhodes Mayer, producer and writer of The Way It Is, National Educational Television Network (Honorable Mention) (1967).
- Bill Osterhous & Dick Hubert, One Nation, Indivisible, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company (1968).
- Fred Freed, Who Killed Lake Erie? NBC-T V (1969).
- Ronn Bonn & Walter Cro n k i t e for their television series, Can the World Be Saved? CBS News (1970).
- Martin Carr, This Child Is Rated X, NBC-T V (1971).
- Lucy Jarvis, What Price Health? NBC-TV (1972).
- Paul Altmeyer, Freedom & Security: The Uncertain Balance, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company (1973).
- CBS Television Network, Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974).
- WNET/13, Special Award for outstanding programming (1974).
- CBS Television Network, Fear on Trial (1975).
- Paul Leaf, Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976).
- Bill Moyers, The Fire Next Door (1977).
- ABC Television Network, Roots (special award) (1977).
- Abby Mann, (Abby Mann/Filmway/NBC) King (1978).
- Steve Singer and Tom Priestley, The Killing G round, ABC-TV News Closeup (1979).
- Carol Colman, Women at Work, WRFM-New York (1979).
- Bill Moyers Journal, Campaign Report #3, WNET/13 (1980).
- MacNeil-Leh rer Report, Special award for continued excellence in television journalism (1980).
- Nina Totenberg, producer, All Things Considered: Voting Rights Act, National Public Radio (1981).
- CBS Reports, The Defense of the United States, CBS News (1981).
- Marc Cooper & Tim Frasca, El Salvador: The Elections, Pacifica Radio News (1982).
- Judy Reemtsma, People Like Us, CBS News (1982).
- Leslie Cockburn, The Pentagon Underground, Our Times with Bill Moyers, CBS News (1983).
- KMOL-TV, San Antonio, TX, Valley of the Shadow of Life (1984).
- KMOX Radio, CBS affiliates, St. Louis, MO, series on Child We l f a re (1984).
- William Peters, A Class Divided, Yale University Films; FRONTLINE, WGBH, Boston, MA (1985).
- Jane Elliott, A Class Divided, Yale University Films, FRONTLINE, WGBH, Boston, MA (Honorary Award). (1985).
- CBS Reports, The Vanishing Family - Crisis in Black America (1986).
- William Drummond, Vale of Tears: The Legacy of Silicon Valley, National Public Radio (1986).
- KMOX Radio, CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO, The High Cost of Growing Old, Joan Beuckman, and Truth or Consequences, Margie Manning (1987).
- Public Affairs Television, Inc., In Search of the Constitution (1987).
- Marilyn V. DeAngelis, Child Care: Everybodys Baby, WLV I-TV56, Boston, MA (1988).
- National Public Radio, News & Inform a t i o n Division, in recognition of far-reaching and creative news coverage, All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition (1988).
- Joan Beuckman, Home, Street, Home, KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO (1989).
- Jonathan Kwitny, The Kwitny Report, WNYC/PBS (1989).
- Joan Beuckman, Medical Costs: A Dangerous Diagnosis, KMOX, CBS Radio, St. Louis, MO (1990).
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault, T h rough the Safety Net, MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour (1990).
- California Working Group, This Far By Faith (1991).
- Gary Covino, David Duke: An Investigative Report SOUNDPRINT (1991).
- John McChesney, Morning Edition - U.S. Manufacturing Series, National Public Radio (1992).
- Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz, Dateline: Wa l-Marts Buy American, NBC-TV (1992).
- Ofra Bikel, Innocence Lost: The Verdict, FRONTLINE, WGBH-TV (1993).
- Andrew Tkach, Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today, ABC News, Turning Point (1994).
- Hedrick Smith, Across the River, WETA-TV (1995).
- Grace Kahng & Stone Phillips, Toy Story, Dateline, NBC (1996).
- David Isay, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman, Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse, NPRs All Things Considered (1996).
- Ed Bradley, Town Under Siege, Ed Bradley on Assignment, CBS News (1997).
- Brian Lamb, for television in the public interest, C - S PAN (2000).
- Stacy Abramson and Dave Isay, Witness to an Execution, NPRs All Things Considered (2001).
- Belle Adler and Brad White, American Dream, American Nightmare, A&E (2001).
- Tia Lessin, Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan, Oxygen Network/WITNESS.org (2002).
- Ofra Bikel, An Ordinary Crime, PBS Frontline (2003).
- Brett Shipp, Mark Smith, and Kraig Kirchem, State of Denial, WFAA-TV (2004).
- Greg Barker, Ghosts of Rwanda , The Chicago Reporter (2005).
- Craig Cheatham, Jim Thomas, and Marty Van Housen, La Oroya, KMOV-TV St. Louis (2006).
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Blogs
First Awarded in 2006
- Joshua Micah Marshall, for his coverage of Social Security issues, Takingpointsmemo.com (2006).
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Magazine
- James H. Means, M.D., Doctors Lobby and Englands Public Medicine: The Facts, The Atlantic Monthly (1950).
- Arthur D. Morse, Whos Trying to Ruin Our Schools? McCalls (1951).
- Joseph Wechsberg, The Seventeenth of June, The New Yorker (1953).
- Charlotte Knight, What Price Security, Colliers (1954).
- The Progressive, special issue on Senator McCarthy (special award) (1954).
- Robert Engler, Oil and Politics, The New Republic (1955).
- Robert Penn Warren, Divided South Searches Its Soul, Life (1956).
- John Fischer, The Harm Good People Do, Harpers Magazine (1956).
- Giorgio De Santillana, Galileo and J.Robert Oppenheimer, The Reporter (1958)
- Harvey Swados, Myth of the Powerful Worker, The Nation (1958).
- Harry W. Ernst & Charles H. Drake, Poor, Proud and Primitive: The Lost Appalachians, The Nation (1960).
- Lillian Smith, The Ordeal of Southern Women, Redbook (1961).
- Margaret Parton, Sometimes Life Just Happens, Ladies Home Journal (1962).
- Arnold Hano, The Burned Out Americans, Saga Magazine (1963).
- J. Robert Moskin, Challenge to Our Doctors, Look (1964).
- Theodore Draper, The Dominican Crisis - A Case Study in American Policy, Commentary (1965).
- Richard Harris, Medicare, The New Yorker (1966).
- Charles and Bonnie Remsberg, Americas Hungry Families, Good Housekeeping (1968).
- Daniel Lang, Casualties of War, The New Yorker (1969).
- Christopher H. Pyle, articles on Army surveillance of political activity, The Washington Monthly (1970).
- Carolyn See, Kenneth Lasson, William Serrin, Robert Coles and Richard Todd, Work in America, The Atlantic Monthly (1971).
- Frank J. Donner & Eugene Cerruti, The Grand Jury Network, The Nation (1972).
- Richard L. Strout for his columns, signed TRB, The New Republic (1973).
- Paul Brodeur, Annals of Industry: Casualties of the Workplace, The New Yorker (1973).
- Susan Sheehan, A Welfare Mother, The New Yorker (1975).
- Guy Neal Williams, The Mushroom Pickers, Philadelphia Magazine (1976).
- Eliot Marshall, Anatomy of Health Care Costs, The New Republic (1977).
- Tracy Kidder, Soldiers of Misfortune, The Atlantic Monthly (1978).
- Michael H. Brown , Love Canal and the Poisoning of America, The Atlantic Monthly (1979).
- The Angolite, Louisiana Death Watch (1981).
- Elizabeth Drew, Politics and Money, The New Yorker (1982).
- Carl Sagan, Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications Foreign Affairs (1983).
- Harrison E. Salisbury, special SHF Officers Award, The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and John Edgar Hoover, The Nation (1984).
- Jacqueline Sharkey, The Tug of Wa r, Common Cause Magazine (1984).
- Daniel Ford , The Button, The New Yorker (1985).
- Conor Cruise OBrien, God and Man in Nicaragua, Atlantic Monthly (1986).
- Jerry Adler, Every Parents Nightmare, Newsweek (1987).
- Robert Scheer, The Man Who Blew the Whistle on Star Wars, Los Angeles Times Magazine (1988).
- Lawrence Weschler, A Grand Experiment, The New Yorker (1989).
- Frank Clancy, Healing the Delta and Burnout in L.A., American Health Magazine (1990).
- Laurie Udesky, Punishing the Poor, Southern Exposure (1991).
- Jonathan Schlefer, What Price Economic Growth? The Atlantic Monthly (1992).
- Southern Exposure, Poverty, Inc., Team: Eric Bates, Adam Feuerstein, Mike Hudson, Rita Henley Jensen, and Barry Yeoman (1993).
- Aaron Bernstein, Inequality and Why America Needs Unions, Business Week (1994).
- Eric Schlosser, In the Strawberry Fields, The Atlantic Monthly (1995).
- Charles Bowden, While You We re Sleeping, Harpers Magazine (1996).
- William Finnegan, The Unwanted, The New Yorker (1997).
- Donald Barlett & James Steele, What Corporate Welfare Costs You, Time Magazine (1998).
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickle-and-Dimed, Harpers Magazine (2000).
- Dexter Roberts, Aaron Bernstein, Gail Edmondson and team, Chinas Great Migration;
Workers in Bondage; A Life of Fines and Beating, Business Week (2001).
- Katherine Boo, After Welfare, The New Yorker (2002).
- John Bowe, Nobodies, The New Yorker (2004).
- Sarah Karp, Our Next Generation, The Chicago Reporter (2005).
- Dave Evans, Mike Smith, Liz Willen and Jonathan Neumann, Big Pharma's Shameful Secret, Bloomberg Markets (2006).
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Officers Awards for Public Service
- Frank P. Graham (1949)
- Oscar R. Ewing (1950)
- Herbert H. Lehman (1951)
- William O. Douglas (1952)
- Harry S. Truman (1953)
- Bishop Bern a rd J. Sheil (1954)
- Wayne L. Morse (1955)
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1956)
- Paul H. Douglas (1957)
- Robert M. Hutchins (1958)
- THREE RELIGIOUS LEADERS (1966)
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Msgr. George C. Higgins
- Rabbi Jacob Weinstein
- W. Willard Wirtz (1968)
- David L. Morse (1969)
- Andrew Young (1978)
- E. G. Marshall (1979)
- Michael Harrington (1988)
- John Herling (1988)
- Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. (1989)
- Harry Bernstein (1990)
- Irving Howe (1991)
- Jim Hightower (1994)
- Murray Kempton (1995)
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Awards in the Field of Housing
- East Brooklyn Congregations Nehemiah Plan (1989)
- Margarena Downey, Blueprint for Housing, The Poughkeepsie Journal (1990)
- Lisa Glazer, Mixed Blessings: Life After the Welfare Hotels, City Limits Magazine (1991)
- Henry Street Settlement (1992)
- Chicago & Central States Joint Board , ACTWU (1992)
- Philadelphia Joint Board, ACTWU (1992)
- Edwina Blackwell Clark and Mike Casey No Shelter, Dayton Daily News (1993)
- Habitat for Humanity International (1994)
- Scott Simon, Sing It Like You Mean It, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition (1995)
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UNITE Officers Award
- Bob Herbert (1996)
- Ed Krueger: Comité Fronteriza de Obreras (1997)
- Committee for a National Teach-In with Labor (1997)
- Robert Reich (1998)
- Students Against Sweatshops (1999)
- Rev. Jesse Jackson (1999)
- Studs Terkel (2000)
- Delores Huerta (2001)
- Carl Pope (2002)
- Sol Stetin (2003)
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