| Year
|
Awardee
|
Speaker at ceremony
|
Notes
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| 1958
|
Jeannette Rankin
|
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| 1959
|
AJ Muste
|
Martin Luther King Jr.
|
| 1960
|
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Fenner Brockway and Bayard Rustin
|
| 1961
|
Tracy Mygatt and Frances M. Witherspoon
|
Murray Kempton and Bayard Rustin
|
| 1962
|
Jim Peck
|
Douglas Campbell and Bayard Rustin
|
| 1963
|
Dorothy Day
|
Evan Thomas and AJ Muste
|
| 1964
|
James Bevel and Diane Nash
|
A. Philip Randolph
|
| 1965
|
Bayard Rustin
|
Milton Mayer
|
| 1966
|
Norman Thomas
|
Mulford Sibley
|
| 1967
|
Barbara Deming
|
Ralph DiGia
|
| 1968
|
The Resistance
|
|
| 1969
|
Ammon Hennacy
|
|
Dinner was canceled
|
| 1970
|
People Resisting within the Military
|
|
| 1971
|
Majorie Swann
|
Lanza del Vasto
|
| 1972
|
Ann Upshure
|
|
Recognition only; not an official award
|
| 1973
|
No dinner
|
|
| 1974
|
Daniel Berrigan
|
Allen Ginsberg
|
| 1975
|
Dave Dellinger
|
|
| 1976
|
Julius Eichel
|
|
| 1977
|
Marion Bromley and Ernest Bromley
|
|
| 1978
|
David Berkingoff and Prafulla Mukerj
|
|
| 1979
|
Igal Roodenko
|
|
| 1980
|
Grace Paley
|
|
| 1981
|
Ralph DiGia
|
|
Recognition only; not an award
|
| 1982
|
Bent Andreson
|
|
| 1983
|
Virginia Eggleston, Thomas Grabell, and Ashley King
|
|
| 1984
|
Larry Gara
|
|
| 1985
|
Barbara Reynolds
|
|
| 1986
|
Plowshares Disarmament Community
|
|
| 1987
|
Dorie Bunting
|
|
| 1988
|
Don Luce, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), John McAuliff, David Truong, Bob Eaton, and Lady Borton
|
|
| 1989
|
Children of War
|
|
| 1990
|
Esther Pank and Riley Bostrom
|
|
| 1991
|
Gulf War Resisters
|
|
| 1992
|
War Tax Resisters, especially activists in Colrain, Massachusetts, An Act of Conscience
|
|
| 1993
|
WRL’s 70th Anniversary
|
|
| 1994
|
No dinner/award
|
|
| 1995
|
No dinner/award
|
|
| 1996
|
The Living Theatre
|
|
| 1997
|
Bob Moses
|
|
| 1998
|
Odetta, Charlie King, People's Voice Cafe, and Pete Seeger
|
|
| 1999
|
David McReynolds
|
|
| 2000
|
Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, Puerto Rico
|
|
| 2001
|
Kate Donnelly and Clay Colt
|
|
| 2002
|
Christian Peacemaker Teams
|
|
| 2003
|
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
|
|
| 2004
|
Fernando Suarez del Solar of Military Families Speak Out
|
|
| 2005
|
Karl Bissinger and Ralph DiGia
|
|
| 2006
|
Women Resisting War from within the Military: Diedra Cobb, Anita Cole, Kelly Dougherty and Katherine Jashinski
|
Presented by Ann Wright
|
| 2007
|
Center for Constitutional Rights and Torture Abolition Survivors and Support Coalition International
Posthumous lifetime achievement award: Grace Paley
|
|
| 2008
|
Kali Akuno and Shana Griffin representing grassroots groups working to rebuild New Orleans
|
A concert with Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Stephanie McKay, Red Baraat Festival, and Jan Bell and the Cheap Dates
|
| 2009
|
Dennis Brutus, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), and Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)
Grace Paley Lifetime Achievement Award: Bill Sutherland, Pan-Africanist and WWII Conscientious Objector
|
|
| 2010
|
Kathy Kelly
|
|
| 2011
|
Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
|
|
Award was declined. The group didn’t want to distract from the people in Afghanistan needing support and a voice.
|
| 2012
|
Asma Mohammed, Suez Port Worker and Labor Leader
|
|
| 2013
|
Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Daniel Ellsberg
Ralph DiGia Award: Joanne Sheehan, New England WRL
|
|
| 2014
|
No Peace Award
Ralph DiGia Award: Ruth Benn
|
|
| 2015
|
Mumia Abu-Jamal
|
|
| 2016
|
Jannat Al Ghezi
|
|
| 2017
|
Mariame Kaba
Grace Paley Lifetime Achievement Award: Rasmea Odeh
|
|
| 2018
|
Corrina Gould and The Peace Poets
Grace Paley Lifetime Achievement Award: Mandy Carter (activist)
|
|
| 2019
|
Highlander Research and Education Center
|
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