2008
Majora Carter
Ruby Dee
Hudson River Housing
Kerry Kennedy
Susan Sarandon

2007
Cherie Blair
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Curtis Roosevelt
Scenic Hudson

2006
John S. Dyson
Helene D. Gayle, M.D.
Colette M. Lafuente
Gabe Pressman
Anne M. Tatlock

2005
M. Farooq Kathwari
Elayne Seaman
Harold A. Seaman
Kate Roosevelt Whitney
William D. Zabel

2004
Michael R. Bloomberg
Clara Lou Gould
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Ruth J. Simmons

2003
Joyce Ghee
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Donald M. Stewart
Mike Wallace

2002
Eleanor Charwat
Bill Moyers
Judith Moyers
Sadaka Ogata
Franklin A. Thomas

2001
Dorothy I. Height
Mathilde Krim
Christopher Reeve
Joan Sherman
Jonah Sherman

2000
Ruth Cardoso
Emilie B. Dyson
Robert R. Dyson
Richard Gere
Jessye Norman

1999
Johnnetta B. Cole
Vartan Gregorian
Hannah C. Pakula
Martha Settle Putney
H. Peter Stern

1998
Anne E. Dyson
Frances D. Fergusson
Richard C. Holbrooke
James Earl Jones

1997
Trude W. Lash
Rachel Robinson
Hollis W. Shaw
Margaret R. Zamierowski

1996
Dennis J. Murray
Her Majesty, Queen Noor of Jordan
Lea Rabin
Frances S. Reese

1995
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hamilton Meserve
Helen Meserve
Pete Seeger

1994
Marian Wright Edelman
Mary Lou Heissenbuttel
Lucille P. Pattison
Fred Rogers

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Medalists 2000

1992
Edward Asner
Barbara Jordan
Jack A. McEnroe
Ethel C. Torgesen

1991
John Chancellor
Mary Hart Keeley
Norman Vincent Peale
John C. “Chips” Quinn

1990
Hamilton Fish, Jr.
Schuyler M. Meyer
Cynthia Parsons
Marie N. Tarver

1989
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Esther Peterson
Father Bruce Ritter
Rabbi Erwin Zimet

1988
Mother Clara McBride Hale
Eugene M. Lang
Helen Hayes McArthur
Richard K. Wager

1987
Harry Belafonte
Trevor Ferrell
Celeste Holm
John E. Mack III
Jean Stapleton