|
Year |
Honoree(s) |
Featured Speaker(s) |
Venue |
| 2011 |
John Cameron
Jeremy Schroeder |
In
Praise of Public Service
Ralph Martire |
Friday, May 13
Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro |
| 2010 |
Carl Rosen,
People's Law Office |
Bring
America Home!
William Greider |
Friday, May 7
Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro |
| 2009 |
Timuel Black,
Jane Ramsey |
"Working Together for Justice"
Kim Bobo
(Bobo
was unable to speak due to a family emergency and Rev. C.J. Hawking
spoke instead.)
|
Friday, May 1
Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro |
| 2008 |
Laurie Burgess,
Mardge Cohen,
Les Orear |
Yes, We Can:
Universal Health Care Now!
Rose Ann DeMoro
(DeMoro was unable to speak
and Dr. Mardge Cohen spoke instead.)
|
Friday, April 25
Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro
|
| 2007 |
Leo Gerard,
Josh Hoyt
|
"Where Do We Go From Here?"
Leo Gerard; Josh Hoyt; Saul Escobar Toledo
|
Friday, May 4
Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
|
| 2006 |
Henry Tamarin,
Rev. Dr. Calvin Morris,
U.S. Labor Against the War
|
"Going Beyond Taking Back Our Country"
John Nichols
|
Friday, April 28
Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
|
| 2005 |
Linda
Rae Murray,
Hal
Gullett
|
"A
Perfect Storm Rising:
The
Crisis in Health Care
Defending
Social Security"
William McNary
|
Friday, May 6
Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
|
| 2004 |
Lynn
Talbott
Eliseo
Medina
|
"Defeating the Most Dangerous
President Ever:
Building
the Dump Bush Movement"
Jan Schakowsky
|
Friday, May 7
Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
|
| 2003 |
Bernice
Bild
Sydney
Bild
Mitch
Vogel
|
"The War Really Worth Fighting:
Organizing the Low Wage Economy"
Henry
Tamarin
|
Friday, May 2
Congress Hotel
|
| 2002 |
Barbara
Hillman
Thomas
Balanoff
|
"Defending Labor Rights, Human Rights
and Civil Liberties"
Douglass Cassel
|
Friday, May 10
Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
|
| 2001 |
Kim
Bobo
Henry
Bayer
|
"Building Coalitions for Social Justice"
Miguel del Valle
|
Friday, May 4
Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
|
| 2000 |
Jan
Schakowsky |
"Fighting Back: Building the New Movement
Against Corporate Greed and Globalization"
Harold Meyerson
|
Friday, May 5
Congress Hotel
|
| 1999 |
Jackie
Kendall
James
K. Tribble
|
"Setting the Terms for Globalization
from Below"
Charles Kernaghan
|
Friday, May 7
Holiday Inn City Centre
|
| 1998 |
William Adelman
Marilyn Sneiderman
|
"A Better World to Win: Labor's Fight
for Social Justice, Past and Future"
William Adelman and Marilyn Sneiderman
|
Friday, May 8
Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
|
| 1997 |
James Weinstein
George Becker
|
"Winning Economic Justice"
George Becker
|
Friday, April 11
Holiday Inn City Centre
|
| 1996 |
Maxie Hill
Deborah Meier
|
"The
Power of Public Education"
Deborah Meier
|
Friday, May 3
Congress Hotel
|
| 1995 |
Rosetta Daylie
Harold Meyerson
|
Harold Meyerson |
Saturday, May 13
Bismarck Hotel
|
| 1994 |
Louis "Lou" Pardo
Carole Travis
|
Barbara Ehrenreich |
Saturday, May 14
Congress Hotel
|
| 1993 |
Mollie West
Julian Bond
|
"Universal Health Care: A Long Time
Overdue"
Dr. Linda Rae Murray
|
Friday, May 7
McCormick Inn
|
| 1992 |
Sue Purrington
Dr. Quentin Young
|
"Beyond Protectionism: Building Labor
Solidarity in the Americas"
Jose LaLuz
|
Friday, May 1
Congress Hotel
|
| 1991 |
Steve Culen
Kathy Devine
|
"Victory in Ontario: Building a Social
Democratic Government"
Dennis Drainville
|
Saturday, May 11
Congress Hotel
|
| 1990 |
Arthur Loevy |
"Victory Over Pittston: Lessons for
the Progressive and Labor Movements in the 1990s"
Cecil Roberts
|
Friday, May 4
Midland Hotel
|
| 1989 |
Milt and Sue Cohen
William Winpisinger
|
Dr. Quentin Young |
Saturday, May 6
Midland Hotel
|
| 1988 |
Joe Jacobs
Saul Mendelson
|
"Education Reform: Is It Possible?"
Deborah Meier
|
Saturday, May 7
Congress Hotel
|
| 1987 |
Jacquelyne Grimshaw
Heather Booth
|
Lynn Williams |
Saturday, May 9
Americana Congress Hotel
|
| 1986 |
Michael Harrington
Jacqueline Vaughn
|
"On the Haymarket Affair Centennial"
Michael Harrington
|
Saturday, May 10
Ascot Hotel
|
| 1985 |
Edward Asner
Vicky Starr
|
Lane Evans |
Saturday, May 4
McCormick Inn
|
| 1984 |
William Lucy |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
Saturday, May 12
McCormick Inn
|
| 1983 |
Joyce Miller |
Harold Washington
Ron Dellums
|
Saturday, May 7
McCormick Inn
|
| 1982 |
Carl Shier |
William Winpisinger |
Saturday, May 1
McCormick Inn
|
| 1981 |
Egidio Clemente |
"Needed: a Bold Imaginative Program
for Survival and Progress"
Ed Broadbent and Mildred Jeffrey
|
Sunday, May 3
Midland Hotel
|
| 1980 |
Rosemary Ruether |
Michael Harrington
(with special guests Crystal Lee Sutton
and Eleanor Smeal)
|
Saturday, May 10
Pick Congress Hotel
|
| 1979 |
Addie Wyatt |
"The Politics of the 1980s"
Irving Howe
|
Sunday, May 6
Midland Hotel
|
| 1978 |
Robert E. Mann |
William Winpisinger |
Sunday, May 7
Midland Hotel
|
| 1977 |
Charles Hayes |
"Challenging the New Conservatives:
the Crisis of Liberalism"
Robert Lekachman
|
Sunday, May 1
Midland Hotel
|
| 1976 |
Dolores Huerta |
"Challenging the New Tories: a Politics
of Hope or a Politics of Fear"
Michael Harrington
|
Sunday, May 16
Midland Hotel
|
| 1975 |
Leon Despres |
"Prospects for Survival: Is There
Hope in Congress?"
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
|
Sunday, May 4
Midland Hotel
|
| 1974 |
Ralph Helstein |
"After Impeachment... What Lies Ahead?"
Victor Reuther
|
Saturday, May 4
Midland Hotel
|
| 1973 |
Murray Finley |
"What Is Ahead for the Seventies?"
Stephen Lewis
|
Saturday, May 5
Midland Hotel
|
| 1972 |
Brendan Sexton |
Michael Harrington |
|
| 1971 |
Patrick Gorman |
Frederick O'Neal
and Bruce Miller |
|
| 1970 |
|
"Labor, Liberals and the Democratic
Left"
Michael Harrington and David Selden
(David Selden did not attend
this dinner as he was in jail because he "aided and abetted
a teachers strike" in Newark, New Jersey.)
|
Sunday, April 12
Midland Hotel
|
| 1969 |
|
Memorial for Norman
Thomas and Eugene Debs |
Saturday, May 17
Midland Hotel
|
| 1968 |
|
"The Crisis of Cities"
Michael Harrington and Leon Keyserling
|
|
| 1967 |
|
|
|
| 1966 |
|
"Labor as a Social Movement;
Labor as Organizer of the Oppressed"
Norman Thomas and Charles Chiakulas
|
Friday, November 11
Midland Hotel
|
| 1965 |
|
"After the Watts Explosion"
Tom Kahn and Norman Hill
|
Saturday, November 20
Midland Hotel
|
| 1964 |
|
An 80th Birthday
Tribute to Norman Thomas |
Saturday, November
28 |
| 1963 |
|
"America's Unfinished Revolution"
Bayard Rustin and James Farmer
|
Saturday, November
23 |
| 1962 |
|
Harry Golden and
Leon Despres |
|
| 1961 |
|
Norman Thomas
and Sidney Lens |
November |
| 1960 |
|
"A New Foreign Policy for Labor"
Emil Mazey
|
Saturday, November 12
Midland Hotel
|
| 1959 |
|
A 75th Birthday Tribute to Norman Thomas
Norman Thomas and A. Philip Randolph
|
|
| 1958 |
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