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CITATION
for BENJAMIN ELIJAH DAVIS
Sixty-Seventh Spingarn Medalist

In grateful tribute to a lifetime of service as a distinguished educator and an eminent Theologian;

In appreciation of his singular achievement of conjoining spiritual and moral leadership with prescient social vision;

For vigorous and persistent pursuit of the goals of social justice and equity in American society;

For continuing devotion to the highest principles of education and ceaseless insistence on standards of excellence for his students and youth in general;

For his enduring and uncompromising advocacy of human and civil rights;

In recognition of his intellectual honesty and compelling integrity in all circumstances.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 
proudly confers 
The Sixty-Seventh Spingarn Medal on
BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS
Educator, Theologian, Humanitarian

Friday, July 2, 1982
Boston, Massachusetts


NAACP: Talking Business
Economics & Esteem at NAACP's Annual Dinner

By Jacqueline Trescott

On an evening when a man who has worked for bipartisan politics and social justice was being remembered, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urged a new formula of economic integrity. 

"Last year black America did more business with corporations than Russia, China and Japan combined," said Jackson, the president of Operation PUSH, last night at the annual dinner of the Washington branch of the NAACP. Jackson spoke for more than an hour about economic and political independence, charging "both the donkey and the elephant have limited routes."

Speaking to more than 1,000 people at the Sheraton Washington, Jackson said, "We must affirm our own course, to move from aid to trade, from charity to parity, from begging to bargaining." 

The dinner honored the late Samuel Jackson, an attorney who worked on dozens of civil rights cases, including the landmark 1954 school desegregation case, and who was appointed by presidents Johnson, Nixon and Reagan to several commissions and sub-Cabinet level positions. 

Last night, Edward Harper, a member of the White House policy development staff, presented Jackson's widow Judith with the President's Citizen Medal, issued posthumously to Jackson. The medal has been presented only eight times since its creation in 1969. 

Jackson, Harper said, "made a real difference in the history of this nation." He had known Jackson personally, and recalled how Jackson would stop at the White House and advise him on any number of subjects

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