Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at Johns Hopkins
Award for
Community Service
Introduction
2007
Recipients
2006
Recipients
2005
Recipients
2004
Recipients
2003
Recipients
2002 Recipients
2001 Recipients
2000 Recipients
1999 Recipients
1998 Recipients
The 26th Annual
Johns Hopkins
Commemoration of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
was held on
January 11, 2008 at noon in the
Turner Auditorium
Read about 2007 Award Recipients
The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital/Health Systems are pleased to announce the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service performed in 2007. The award will be presented at the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Celebration in January 2008 to distinguished faculty, staff, graduate students and retirees of The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital/Health Systems who demonstrate the same spirit of volunteerism and citizenship that characterized the life of Dr. King. Throughout his life, Dr. King had a deep faith in what people working together could accomplish for themselves and for their nation.
Keynote speakers at the Annual Johns Hopkins
Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Celebration:
2008 - Levi Watkins
2007- Maya Angelou
2006 - James Earl Jones
2005 - Rev. Jesse Jackson
2004 - Cicely Tyson
2003 - Danny Glover & Harry
Belafonte, Ideals Award Recipient
2002 - Coretta Scott King
2001 - John Lewis and Dick Gregory, Ideals Award Recipient
2000 - Taylor Branch
1999 - Julian Bond
1998 - Levi Watkins, Benjamin Carson
1997 - Kweisi Mfume
1996 - The Rev. Bernice King
1995 - Sweet Honey in the Rock
1994 - Yolanda King, Ossie Davie and Ruby Dee
1993 - Johnetta Coles and Maya Angelou
1990 - Stevie Wonder
1988 - Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy
1987 - Zenani Mandela and Benjamin Hooks
1986 - The Rev. Desmond Tutu
1985 - Harry Belafonte
1984 - Andrew Young
1983 - Coretta Scott King
1982 - Martin Luther King III and Bernard Lee
Updated January 2008
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