Thompson Legacy of a Dream Award Recipients

• 2017 – Abel Enrique Núñez, Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
• 2016 – Nakeisha Neal Jones, Public Allies DC
• 2015 – George Jones, Bread for the City
• 2014 –Lecester Johnson, Academy of Hope
• 2013 – Mary Brown, Life Pieces to Masterpieces
• 2012 – Clarence Jones, scholar and former personal counsel, advisor and draft speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr.
• 2011 – Rev. Joseph Lowery, civil rights activist and former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• 2010 – Dikembe Mutombo, Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, Inc.
• 2009 – Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund
• 2008 – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)
• 2007 – Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS
• 2006 – Rosa Parks (posthumous), civil rights icon
• 2005 – Colin and Alma Powell, founding board chair and current board chair of America’s Promise Alliance
• 2004 – William H. Gray III, president and CEO of United Negro College Fund
• 2003 – John Thompson Jr., head basketball coach, Georgetown University Men’s Basketball (1972-1999)