Of Medals and Myths
2010; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1557-2978
Autores Tópico(s)Migration, Refugees, and Integration
ResumoOn July 30, 2009, the White House announced that President Barack Obama would award a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harvey Milk, the gay rights activist and San Francisco politician who was assassinated in 1978. Milk was one of sixteen individuals whom Obama announced he would honor with the annual award. Others included physicist Stephen Hawking; former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor; tennis star Billie Jean King; singer Chita Rivera; civil rights pioneer Joseph Lowery; and Joseph Medicine Crow, a historian of the Crow Tribal Nation. In a statement, Obama said that These outstanding men and women represent an incredible diversity of back grounds ... Yet they share one overarching trait: each has been an agent of change.1
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