The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees
Click on a column heading to sort the list.
| Year |
Category |
Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Officers’ Award | Delores Huerta | United Farmworkers of America | ||
| 2000 | Officers’ Award | Studs Terkel | Studs Terkel | ||
| 1999 | Officers’ Award | Rev. Jesse Jackson | Rev. Jesse Jackson | ||
| 1999 | Officers’ Award | Students Against Sweatshops | Students Against Sweatshops | ||
| 1998 | Officers’ Award | Robert Reich | Former U.S Secretary of Labor | ||
| 1996 | Officers’ Award | Bob Herbert | Bob Herbert | ||
| 1995 | Officers’ Award | Murray Kempton | Murray Kempton | ||
| 1994 | Officers’ Award | Jim Hightower | Jim Hightower | ||
| 1991 | Officers’ Award | Irving Howe | Irving Howe | ||
| 1990 | Officers’ Award | Harry Bernstein | Harry Bernstein | ||
| 1989 | Officers’ Award | Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. | Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1988 | Officers’ Award | Michael Harrington | Michael Harrington | ||
| 2021 | Officers’ Award | Robert Parris Moses | Founder and President, The Algebra Project | ||
| 1988 | Officers’ Award | John Herling | John Herling | ||
| 1980 | Officers’ Award | E.G. Marshall | E.G. Marshall | ||
| 1979 | Officers’ Award | Andrew Young | Andrew Young | ||
| 1969 | Officers’ Award | W. Willard Wirtz | W. Willard Wirtz | ||
| 1967 | Officers’ Award | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Msgr. George C. Higgins, Rabbi Jacob Weinstein | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Msgr. George C. Higgins, Rabbi Jacob Weinstein | ||
| 1959 | Officers’ Award | Robert M. Hutchins | Robert M. Hutchins | ||
| 1958 | Officers’ Award | Paul H. Douglas | Paul H. Douglas | ||
| 1957 | Officers’ Award | Eleanor Roosevelt | Eleanor Roosevelt | ||
| 1957 | Newspaper | The New York Times | editorials on the Middle East Crisis (special award) | The New York Times | |
| 1962 | Newspaper | Patrick J. Owens | ed itorials on current issues | Pine Bluff (AR) Commercial | |
| 2016 | Newspaper | Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, Tom Robbins | “Cellblock Justice” | The New York Times and the Marshall Project |