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National Builder Awards
The Nation Builder Awards were established to recognize those African Americans who have
distinguished themselves through lifelong service and dedication to the enfranchisement and
inclusion of Americans of African descent into the national body of politics. In 1995, the Nation
Builder Awards Ceremony was renamed to honor the late David P. Richardson, Jr. (1948-95),
a 23-year member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and NBCSL's third president.

NBCSL is proud to honor this year's Nation Builder Recipients who have all made significant
contributions to, and laid the foundation for the political, economic and social progress of
African Americans.


2003 National Awardees
• Robin Roberts
• Shelia Jackson
• Kase L. Lawal
• Willie Baker

2002 National Awardees
• John Conyers Jr.
• Dr. Dorothy Height
• Thomas W. Dortch Jr.
• Leon Lynch

2001 National Awardees
• Ronald Brown
• Patricia A.Ford
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee

• Dr. Ronald Walters

2000 National Awardees
• Lerone Bennett, Jr
• Dr. W Michael Byrd
• Emma C. Chappell, LLD
• Dr. Linda A. Clayton
• Gloria T. Johnson
• Reggie White
• Brian Williams
 

1999 National Awardees
• Honorable Unita Blackwell
• Desmond Brown
• Enolia Pettigen McMillan
• Attorney Donald Watkins
1998 National Awardees
• Honorable Earl E Hilliard, Jr.
• Victor M. Julien
• Elaine R. Jones, Esq
• William "Bill" Lucy
• Dr. Yvonne Lefrwich Scruggs
• Honorable Louis Stokes
• Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan

1997 National Awardees
• Johnnie Cochran, Jr.
• Margaret A. Dixon, Ed.D
• Marcia L. Fudge, Esq
• Richard Gordon Hatcher
• Dr. C. DeLores Tucker
• Barbara Van Blake

1996 National Awardees
•Marian Wright Edelman
• Isis T. Johnson
• Oseola McCarty

1995 National Awardees
• Charles Augustus Ballard
• Daisy Bates
• Dr. Henry W Foster, Jr
• Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery
• Eugene McCullers
• Wayman F. Smith III

1994 National Awardees
• Benjamin Ruffin
• Bertha Roddey
• Richard Butcher

1993 National Awardees
• Honorable Shirley Chisholm
• George L. Brown
• Mervyn M. Dymally
• V
ernon E. Jordan, Jr.