Awards and honors Presidential Citizens Medal (1989) Spingarn Medal from the NAACP (1993) Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom From Want Award (1993) inducted into the National Womens Hall of Fame (1993) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994) 7th Annual Heinz Award Chairmans Medal (2001) National Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged (2001) Listed on Molefi Kete Asantes list of 100 Greatest African Americans (2002) Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush on behalf of the United States Congress (Approved, 2003) (Awarded, 2004) 2009 Foremothers Lifetime Achievement Award from the NRC for Women & Families Personal Fact. According to a DNA analysis performed by African Ancestry Inc., she descended mainly from people of Sierra Leone.
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