President Bill Clinton will attend and deliver remarks at the 109th Annual NAACP Convention in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
President Clinton will be introducing this year’s Spingarn medalist, Willie Brown, Jr.
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually for the highest achievement of an American of African descent. The Spingarn was instituted in 1914 by the late J. E. Spingarn (then Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), who gave annually until his death in 1939, a gold medal to be awarded “for the highest or noblest achievement by a living American Negro during the preceding year or years.”
Willie L. Brown, Jr., two-term mayor of San Francisco, renowned speaker of the California Assembly, and widely regarded as the most influential African-American politician of the late twentieth century, has been at the center of California politics, government and civic life for four decades.
President Clinton will be introducing this year’s Spingarn medalist, Willie Brown, Jr.
The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually for the highest achievement of an American of African descent. The Spingarn was instituted in 1914 by the late J. E. Spingarn (then Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), who gave annually until his death in 1939, a gold medal to be awarded “for the highest or noblest achievement by a living American Negro during the preceding year or years.”
Willie L. Brown, Jr., two-term mayor of San Francisco, renowned speaker of the California Assembly, and widely regarded as the most influential African-American politician of the late twentieth century, has been at the center of California politics, government and civic life for four decades.
- 7/18/2018
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