Human and Civil Rights Award Winners

2016
Ellen Story*
Lois Ahrens**
Frederik Bommer**
Rosemary "Betsy" Sawyer**

2015
Diana Turco**
Alicia Lopez*

2014
George R. Spivey*
Kelvin Ing**
Amy Lipkind**
Caitlin McCarthy**

2013
Sister Ann Fox*
Mick Carlon**

2012
Zach Galvin, Greg Gilbert and Douglas Riebesehl (posthumously)**
Julia Monteiro Johnson*

2011
Caroline Hunter
Ann Marie Dooley and Susan Mendoza Friedman

2010
Anne Wass*
Mary Gilmore**

2009
Horace Seldon*
Jacqueline Coogan

2008
Boston Gay Men's Chorus
Nantucket Sports/Therapuetic Assistive Recreation

2007
Joseph Petner, Cambridge Public Schools
Genoveffa Grieci, Framingham Public Schools*

2006
Sadiqa Basiri, Mt. Holyoke*
Maria de Lourdes Serpa, Lesley University

2005
Jose Pinheiro, Brockton Public Schools
Roger L. Rice, Multicultural Education, Training and Advocay, Inc.

2004
Karen Swartwout and Thomas DeVito, Ferryway School, Malden
Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Caucus, Arline Isaacson and Gary Daffin, Co-Chairs
Paul and Carolyn Hebert, Champ Homes*

2003
Karen Horner *
Dale Forest

2002
Maria D'Arcangelo*
Steve Sinnott*

2001
Dr. Alice Axelrod
Lucy Myers
Cambridge Youth Peace and Justice Corps
Fred Andelman*

2000
Alice Cormack
Carmen Davila
Robert Restuccia

1999
Dr. John W. Stuart
Peter Vuno
Edith Cannon
Rosanne Bacon Meade*

1998
James Wilcox
Louise Gaskins
Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith

1997
Inez Dover
Dr. Maxine Elmont
Susan Somner, R.N
Coalition for Asian Pacific American Youth

1996
Dr. Lorna E. Chambers-Andrade, R.N
William Dyson
Joyce Freeman

1995
Al Ferriera
Mary Jo Mason and Joyce Rogean
Dr. Rosanne Perlmutter
Warren Emerson Priest
Virginus Bray Thornton, III

1994
Kenneth F. Caulfield
Edna P. Spencer

1993
Josephine E. Bernard
Christine E. Woods
Mary L. Pottle
John L. Reed
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum

1992
Edmund G. Grogan
Kathleen R. Roberts

1991
Ronald Adams and Eileen Sadof
Robert Glover
Peter Nien-chu Kiang
The Haymarket People’s Fund

1990
Dr. George S. Smith
Griselda Gonsalez Wilson
Newton North High School Human Rights Committee

1989
Dr. Sonia Nieto
Sylvia Q. Simmons
Jack Williams

1988
Rev. Dr. Robert L. Carter, Jr.
Joceline E. Grant
Professor Meyer Weinberg

1987
Dr. Jose Figueiredo
Hsiu-Lien Lu
Dr. Mary E. Cannon McLean

1986
Charlotte Degan
Facing History and Ourselves
Congressman Gerry E. Studds
Special award presented to Nelson Mandela.

1985
Emma M. Barrow
Dr. Thelma Griffith-Johnson
Norman C. Najimy

1984
George W. Counter
The Council for Human Understanding, Inc.
Dr. Brunetta R. Wolfman

1983
Majorie Anderson
Dr. Ronald R. Edmonds
Honorable Harry J. Elam