THE HUMANITARIAN AWARDS DINNER

2007 award recipients

2007 Humanitarian Award Recipients
Thereasea Clark Elder (l) and Ruth G. Shaw (R) with Young Humanitarian Chandni Patel (c)

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The Humanitarian Awards Dinner is a platform and a showcase for our mission, our programs and for our community. For 50 years, it has honored outstanding members of the Charlotte Mecklenburg community for their work to promote inclusion and social justice. Humanitarian Award recipients are selected from nominations submitted by well-respected members of our community.

The criteria for the Humanitarian Award are that the individual:

Lives and/or works in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community
Has made significant contributions to improving the quality of life for members of the community by challenging discrimination and/or advocating for equity and inclusion
Exemplifies the mission of the Charlotte Coalition for Social Justice by promoting improved relationships between people of different groups, races, religions, cultures, and nationalities
Is well known and respected in the community as a person of outstanding integrity

The Awards Dinner also recognizes a young person who is showing leadership and a strong commitment to being an agent of positive social change. The young person selected will be or will have been a participant in our programs, will have rendered service to the organization as a volunteer and will be involved in developing initiatives to promote appreciation of diversity and inclusion within the institutions and/or among the networks to which s/he belongs.

If you would like to nominate an individual or individuals for this prestigious award, please contact the executive director.

Humanitarian Award Recipients since 1957:

Thereasea Clark Elder 2007
Ruth G. Shaw 2007
Chandni Patel (Youth Award) 2007
Sarah Mingo Stevenson 2006
William A. White, Jr. 2006
Michaelina Antahades (Youth Award) 2006
Sally and Russell Robinson 2005
Brandi Autry (Youth Award) 2005
Sandra and Leon Levine 2004
Rev. Msgr. Mauricio W. West 2004
Kike’ Aluko (Youth Award) 2004
Gloria Pace King 2003
James H. Woodward 2003
Thanh-Thu Luong (Youth Award) 2003
Shirley L. Fulton 2002
F. William Vandiver, Jr. 2002
Darius A. Graham (Youth Award) 2002
Eric Smith, Ph.D. 2001
James E. Ferguson II 2001
Jainey Bavishi (Youth Award) 2001
Ruth Easterling 2000
Jim Richardson 2000
Truc Doan (Youth Award) 2000
Edward Crutchfield 1999
Caroline L. Myers 1999
James G. Martin, Ph.D. 1998
Joseph B. Martin, Ph.D. 1998
Douglas Wade Booth 1997
Harvey B. Gantt 1997
Elizabeth Schmoke Randolph 1996
Mark R. Bernstein 1996
Rev. Dr. Gary Gloster 1995
Mary Thomas Burke 1995
Harriet S. “Sis” Kaplan 1994
William S. Lee 1994
Rolfe Neill 1993
David Citron 1992
Hugh L. McColl, Jr. 1991
John T. Crawford 1991
Jonnie McLeod, M.D. 1990
Gordon J. H. Berg 1989
Bishop George E. Battle, Jr. 1988
Monroe T. Gilmour, M.D. 1987
Dorothy “Dolly” Tate 1986
John A. “Jack” Tate, Jr. 1986
Catherine C. Huffman 1985
Herman Blumenthal 1985
The Honorable James B. McMillan 1981
Julius Levonne Chambers 1981
Luther H. Hodges, Jr. 1976
William J. Veeder 1971
V. Reitzel Snider 1969
Dr. Samuel Byuarm 1969
Chief John E. Ingersoll 1968
Rev. Dr. Billy Graham 1967
Charlotte B’nai B’rith Women 1966
Mayor Stanford Brookshire 1964
John R. Cunningham, Ph.D. 1963
Dr. Bonnie Cone 1962
Charles F. Coira, Jr. 1961
CMS Principals and Teachers 1961
Judge John J. Parker 1957