Posted on 07/30/2009 5:15:17 PM PDT by Glenn
Pedro Jose Greer Jr. is the founder of Camillus Health Concern, an agency that provides medical care to more than 10,000 homeless patients a year in Miami, Florida.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, has served as a senator for 46 years and has pushed for quality and affordable health care for children, seniors and people with disabilities.
Billie Jean King, a professional tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s, was the first openly lesbian major sports figure in the United States.
Rev. Joseph Lowery has been a leader of the struggle for civil rights since the 1950s. His work included helping to organize the Montgomery bus boycott that followed Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger in 1955.
Joe Medicine Crow – High Bird is the last living Plains Indian war chief and author on Native American history and culture.
Harvey Milk, who receives the award posthumously, became the first openly gay elected official of a major U.S. city when he joined the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He pushed the civil rights movement for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Sidney Poitier was the first African American to be nominated for and win an Academy Award for best actor.
Chita Rivera was the first Latina recipient of the performing arts award from the Kennedy Center. She made her breakthrough performance in 1957 as Anita in the Broadway premiere of West Side Story and has won two Tony Awards.
Desmond Tutu is an Anglican archbishop who played a lead role in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement.
Muhammad Yunus pioneered micro-loans in his effort to reverse poverty trends. The Bangladeshi economist provided small, low-interest loans to low-income people in Bangladesh. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
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Don’t know enough about Lowry,Crow or Rivera to form a firm opinion but the rest sound like filthbags to me.
Murderer Ted Kennedy is one of them. Unbelievable!!!
MOST SHOULD BE ON THE GOVERNMENT TYRANNY MEDAL LIST. WHAT A CROCK.
Crow earned it. He is the last war chief, from World War II. The rest are liberal cases.
Relax folks.... it’s just Zero continuing his goal of running down America in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Ted “dangerous when wet” Kennedy, will get his live saving badge?
How about Lt. Col. Allen B. West? He saved lives in Iraq with his gunpoint to a miscreants head.
I hope the POS dies before he gets the award. Murderer.
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