Dé Bryant, Ph.D., is the recipient of The History Museum’s 2024 African American Legacy Award. She will be honored at the Juneteenth Luncheon, taking place in the museum’s Historic Oliver Gardens from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 11.
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1991
Helen Pope
John Charles Bryant
1992
Theresa Ashe
Virginia Calvin
Kathryn Jeffries
1993
Elizabeth Fletcher Allen
Eugenia Braboy
1994
Dale O. Grayson
Jesse L. Dickinson
1995
Dr. John W. Skinner
Dr. B.W. Streets
Dr. S. Bernard Vagner
Dr. Milton A. Butts
1996
Etta Boswell Bowen
Dr. Roland Chamblee
Ida Mitchum
1997
Louvenia Cain
Rev. L. James Perry
1998
Wilma Gary
1999
Carl Ellison
Ladies of Distinction
Michael Warren
2000
Josephine H. Curtis
Hollis Hughes, Jr.
Ben Johnson
Our Day Together Club
St. Pierre Ruffin Club
2001
Farrow Powell Family
Sondra Mose Ursery
2002
Lester C. Lamon
Unsung Heroes and Heroines
of the Local Civil Rights Movement
2003
American Negro Girls
Softball League and “Uncle Bill’s”
All Colored Girls Softball Team
Coquese Washington
2004
Mary Frances Grayson-Jackson
Rev. Gerald L. Hayden
Elmer S. Joseph
Charles E. Thompson
2005
Chester Allen
Zilford Carter
Jesse Dickinson
Valjean Dickinson
Bernard Luther White, Jr.
Cleo Washington
2017
Marvin V. Curtis Ed.D.
2018
Civil Rights Heritage Center
2019
Jacquelyn Rucker
2023
Verge “Brother Sage” Gillam
