Leon Sullivan

1922 - 2001

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: civil rights movement

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: West Virginia State University

occupation: human rights activist, social activist

award received: Spingarn Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Four Freedoms Award - Freedom of Worship, Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights, Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, Phoenix Award

Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 – April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist. Sullivan died of leukemia in a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital at the age of 78. Source: Wikipedia (en)