Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr COLORADO HOLIDAY COMMISSION 2021 HUMANITARIAN AWARDS NOMINATION “GOOD TROUBLE!”
Dr. Martin Luther “GOOD TROUBLE!” King, Jr. Humanitarian Awards Committee: Sunday, March 7, 1965 Selma, Alabama many black citizens had gathered to peacefully march to Montgomery, Alabama to exercise their rights to register so they could cast their vote in DR. TERRY NELSON BLAIR-CALDWELL elections. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of AFRICAN AMERICAN African-American residents to practice their constitutional right. In defiance of segregationist RESEARCH LIBRARY CHAIRPERSON repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. SAM ANDERSON, COLORADO CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a
RAY BROWN landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement. Representative John Lewis coined DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING the phrase “GOOD TROUBLE.” During Representatives Lewis’ his sixty years of Civil Rights JR. CULTURE CENTER PUEBLO, and politics Mr. Lewis championed Affordable Health Care, Voting Rights, National African CO American Museum Firearm Safety, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to
SUZY CHIPMAN name a few. With his activism Lewis continued to get into GOOD TROUBLE! DRMLKJRCHC ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Colorado Holiday Commission’s Humanitarian Awards ELONORA CRICHLOW ceremony will be held in Tuesday January 12, 2021, at 7:30 p.m., via YouTube due to the COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER COVID-19 Pandemic. FRANKLIN JEFFERSON LOVELAND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Colorado Holiday Commission will celebrate and honor Dr. King’s COMMITTEE life’s work. Six honorees which include Lifetime Achievement and Outstanding Youth awards
ELMA HAIRSTON, will be recognized with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Humanitarian Awards. DYNAMIC IMAGES
DR. VERN L. HOWARD, Recipients who come from all walks of life, driven, as Dr. King were, by the desire to help make DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. COLORADO the world a better place. (Past recipients are listed on the back of this letter.) COMMISSION
SHYRETTA HUDNALL, Nomination deadline is 12 Noon Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Forms are available to DRMLKJRCHC download online at www.drmartlkingjrchc.org under the “2021 Humanitarian Awards” tab. Feel STATEWIDE SPECIAL EVENTS CHAIR free to download and share the form with others. Honorees will be notified by December 28, 2020. JENNIFER MALPIEDE, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. COLORADO Submit completed nomination forms to Charleszine “Terry” Nelson at the Blair Caldwell COMMISSION (PIO) African American Research Library, 2401 Welton Street, Denver, CO 80205 (U. S. postal mail, DEBORAH PARSONS, email, fax and hand delivery are accepted. Submit via email to: [email protected] or COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER [email protected]; via fax number: 303-953-0799) NORA JANE ROBINSON, COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER
DR. RYAN ROSS, Sincerely, URBAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION OF COLORADO Charleszine “Terry” Nelson JACQUI SHUMWAY- LEGISLATIVE LIAISON Chair, Humanitarian Recipients Committee
RICARDO SANDERS COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER
DR. RUTH STEELE, PUEBLO DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
DR. CLAUDETTE SWEET, VOCALIST & COMMUNITY ACTIVIST
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1990 Humanitarian Recipients 2001 Humanitarian Recipients Anti-Defamation League Humanitarian Recipients Bishop William C. Frey Shaun Gutierrez/Heaton M. S, Agatha Chris & Chad Horner Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzales Jackson Babs Johnson Rachel Noel Grace Hale Jordan Jack Lang y Marquez Rev. James D. Peters, Jr. Orlando’s Way Robert I. “Bob” Patton Rev. Acen L. Phillips Gladys Raj Sen. Gloria T. Tanner Arie Taylor Sage Remington Menola Upshaw 1991 UMOJA: Terry Minggia, Virgil Carlotta Walls Lanier, Trailblazer Humanitarian Recipients Robinson, Alfred Sayers Syl Morgan Smith, Trailblazer Warren Alexander U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder Bea Branscombe (posthumous) Leo Cardenas 1997 Hiawatha Davis (posthumous) Joyce Marie Davis Humanitarian Recipients 2002 John Echohawk American Friends Service Committee Humanitarian Recipients Rabbi Steven Foster Gwendolyn Scott / A WORLD OF Civic Center Office Building Sumiko Hennessey DIFFERENCE Community Outreach Program Rev. Julian Rush Lorraine Granado Eleanor G. Crow James D. White Barbara Shannon-Banister Betina Hicks 1992 Rev. Aaron Gray Grant Jones Jr. Humanitarian Recipients George Stranahan (Roaring Fork Frank Nelson Daisy Anderson, Steamboat Springs Valley) David Schumm Greater Denver Ministerial Alliance Sarah Harmon Robert J. Shoates Rev. Wendell T. Liggins Susie Jones / Dorothy Baker Project 2003 Rex Morgan Mary Miera Humanitarian Recipients Max Frankel Gwendolyn Thomas Victoria “Vikki” Buckley Swanee Hunt Bernie Valdez Charles Butcher Gary Lozow 1998 Daniel Oh Lewis Trujillo Humanitarian Recipients Betty Proctor 1993 Randy Chapman Stephen Straight Humanitarian Recipients Ramon del Castillo Bess Bailiff-Turner Polly B. Baca Karen Fallahi Mayor & Mrs. Wellington Webb Denver Rescue Mission Patricia J Huhn Lifetime Achievement Recipients Sarah Lee Foster Verna W. Jackson, Ph.D. 2004 Charlotte Friedman Kathy Kuskulis Humanitarian Recipients Vincent G. Harding, Ph.D. Oliver “Skeeter” Van/Night Moves Lucy Pab`on Penfield W. Tate II Darius Lee Smith Issac Moore (posthumous) A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Christopher Weatherly-White, M.D. Keith “K.C.” Matthews 1994 Jeannie VanVelkinburgh William H. Coker Humanitarian Recipients John H. Yee Jared Polis Dr. Jules Amer 1999 John & Edna Mosley Lowell Darr Humanitarian Recipients Lifetime Achievement Recipients Rabbi Daniel Goldberger Lawrence “Larry” Donato 2005 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. William Durland Humanitarian Recipients National Council of Negro Women, Inc. Friendly Harbor Drop-in Center, Pueblo Dianne Briscoe Patricia Barela Rivera Essie Garrett Kara Rosa Cayce Leonard Sowell Rosianna Lewis Brother Jeff Fard 1995 Robbi Smith Lange Parthenia Jones-Johnson Humanitarian Recipients Elizabeth and Ted Thomas Dr. Lucy Jane Miller Senator Robert E. Allen 2000 Karen Wilde Rogers Oleta L. Crain Humanitarian Recipients Dr. Albert C. Yates Ruth C. Denny Michael Auberger Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado Jim Garcia Sharol Enockson Lifetime Achievement Recipients Antonio Guardado, South H.S. Virginia Fraser 2006 Rosalind “Bee” Harris Noel and Leslie Ginsburg Humanitarian Recipients Home of Neighborly Services Teri Ben Reiff Charles Cousins Westerman/PHAMALY Janet Sammons The Daniels Fund 1996 Barbara Vogel Fannie Fiddmont, Ed. D.
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Johnnie Johnson & Wayne Turner Dr. Robbie Bean Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Cecilia Mascarenas Mrs. Lena Gibbons (Posthumous) Alliance (GMDMA) Zara A. Snapp Mrs. Alice Langley Charles Burrell Hazel Johnson Whitsett Ms. Loretta Richardson 2016 Lifetime Achievement Recipients Coach Laurence Tarver Humanitarian Recipients Rosemarie Freeney-Harding The Stapleton Foundation (Alisha Sharon Bridgeforth 2007 Brown & Frank Lucero) Crisanta Duran Humanitarian Recipients 2012 Dr. Zelda M. DeBoyes Silke Hansen Humanitarian Recipients The Kitchen Community Archie Jones Hon. Menola Upshaw Step 13, Inc. Pensal McCray Mrs. Marion Veronica Dr. Joyce Marie Davis Outstanding L. Elaine Neal Ellerbee (Posthumous) Youth Recipients: Victoria Fleming Julissa Soto Alpha Phi Alpha Hon. Menola Upshaw Lifetime Julissa Torrez Fraternity, Inc. Achievement Recipients: Simone Williams Officer David Hutchings, Edward J. Dwight, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Recipients The Abrahamic Initiative, Hon. Wilma J. Webb Founder’s George W. Gray & Juanita Ross Gray Dr. Raymond Dean Jones. Recipients: (posthumous) Reverend Ronald Wooding, Dr. Barbara Shannon-Banister 2008 Dr. Joyce Marie Davis Dr. James Peters Humanitarian Recipients Outstanding Youth Recipients 2017 Senator Peter C. Groff Salina C. Trahan (Lifetime Achievement Recipients) Randle Loeb 2013 Dr. Ruth Steel Haven Moses Humanitarian Recipients Charles McCulley Lieutenant Les Perry Abraham Harold Fields Owetta McNeil Elisa Sagehorn Alyse Cecile Harris Humanitarian Recipients Project Angel Heart Dr. Arthur Jones Rise Colorado Volunteers of America, (CO) Tamara Rhone Michelyn Johnson Lifetime Achievement Recipients Dr. Ryan Ross Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Wilma M. Taylor (posthumous) Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Dr. Joyce Marie Davis Outstanding The Honorable Elbra Wedgeworth Youth Recipients: 2009 Lifetime Achievement Recipients Noah J. P. Jones Humanitarian Recipients Bennie Lucille Williams Hon. Wilma J. Webb Founder’s Christie Donner 2014 Recipients: Pastors Leon & Yvonne Emerson Humanitarian Recipients Lawrence "Larry" Hugh Borom Russ Nesiba Murugan Palani Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzáles Tracy Jenkins Winchester Tom Luehrs Bishop Phillip H. Porter Jr. Calvin Natt Rose Ellen Shipp 2018 Maria Guajardo, Ph.D. Dr. Joyce Marie Davis Outstanding Humanitarian Recipients Lifetime Achievement Recipients Youth Recipients Maisha Fields Jean & Sam Guyton Josephine “Josie” Shumway Brady Antoinette N. Massey 2010 Hon. Wilma J. Webb Founder’s Ricardo “Mr. Rick” Sanders Lifetime Achievement Recipients Recipients Lifetime Achievement Recipients: Honorable Dorothy Rupert, Former Elinor (Ellie) Miller Greenberg & Tom and Barbara Jo Humphrey State Senator Richard Young ESQ. Jane W. and Carl P. Pigford Ms. Cleo Parker Robinson, Lifetime Achievement Recipients: Hon. Wilma J. Webb Founder’s Humanitarian Recipients Thelma Gash & Recipients: Clinica Tepeyac Robert & Eddie Woolfolk Mr. Elvin R. Caldwell, Jr. Ms. Rhonda Fields 2015 Dr. Claudette Evette F. Sweet La Academia at the Denver Inner Humanitarian Recipients 2019 City Parish David Arterberry Jerome Davis League of Women Voters of Denver Education Barbara Shannon-Banister Cecil Gutierrez Fund Dr. Evie Garrett Dennis Jandel Allen-Davis, MD Pastor Heidi McGinness Anna Jo Haynes Rhonda M. Coleman, DAOM Ms. Alyssa Motz, Youth Recipient Reverend Doctor Jules Smith Trayosha Decker (Outstanding Youth) Lifetime Achievement Recipients Dr. Joyce Marie Davis Outstanding Kenzie Hull (Lifetime Achievement) 2011 Youth Recipients Nekyah Cheraye Scott Eric K. Hughes ( Lifetime Achievement) Humanitarian Recipients Special MLK Commission Recipients: Dennis Gallagher (Founders Award)
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Barbara Shannon-Bannister (Founders African American Historical and Hazel Whitsett (Lifetime Achievement) Award) Genealogical Olivia Omega Edlla Beata Tetteh (Outstanding Youth) 2020 ADL (Alan Berg BIPOC) Tamara Banks (Founders Award) Aubrey J. Lavizzo, DVM Jerome Whittington and JoKatherine Dr. Sly Morgan Smith (Founders Award) Holliman Page (Lifetime Achievement) 2021 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HUMANITARIAN RECIPIENTSS NOMINATION FORM
Selection Criteria The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Recipientss recipients having, in varied and diverse ways, helped to bring about Dr. King's dream of an equal opportunity for all persons to build a better life, regardless of their race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. We especially seek to honor adults, youth, and groups who give freely of themselves, whose good works spring from a generous volunteer spirit. We aspire to honor at least one high school student who exemplifies the legacy of Dr. King and his message with the Dr. Joyce Marie Davis Outstanding Youth Recipients. We are equally interested in those who have blazed a trail before us, whether or not they're active today with the “Honorable Menola Upshaw Lifetime Achievement Recipients.” We also don’t want to forget those that labored among us with their time, talent, and resources, who are no longer with us.
*********************************************************************** Nominee Information: On a separate page please provide a Nomination Support Narrative sharing the reason you are nominating this person or organization, for the Recipients. Please include how your nominee embodies the compassion, philosophy, and dreams of Dr. King as well as why this person or organization is deserving of this Recipients and recognition. Nomination Supporting Narrative must be typed in Times New Roman, 12, font and may not exceed two pages. (*Failure to submit nominations by the 12 Noon Friday, December 18, 2020, deadline may be deem the nominee ineligible for consideration.) **Please be prepared to submit a recent professional photograph, in camera-ready format, of your nominee if they are selected as a 2019 recipient. If you do not have a current professional photograph, A-Star Photography will happily provide professional photography services at no cost to the honoree.
Nominee's full name (if the nominee is deceased, please indicate).
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Age (if 21 years old or younger) Address of nominee (or survivors) Email address Home phone and fax Work phone and fax
Name of person making nomination Address Email address Home phone and fax Work phone and fax
Name and address of another person who can confirm and add to your reasons for nomination:
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The honorees will be notified on Friday, December 18, 2020 Submit your nomination by 12NOON on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 to: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Committee c/o Charleszine “Terry” Nelson, Chair Blair Caldwell African American Research Library 2401 Welton St. Denver, Colorado 80205
or
E-mail: [email protected] & [email protected]
or via fax to: 303.953.0799
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