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_Published 2014-11-11. President Obama nominated 19 candidates to receive the Medal of Freedom Monday, and several of them have ties to the Civil Rights Movement._


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## Transcript

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor awarded by the US. And President Obama has just named nineteen new candidates for the prestigious prize. You're probably familiar with some of the more famous faces on the list, like singer Stevie Wonder, actress Meryl Streep. Newsman Tom Brokaw and composer Steven Sondheim. But this year the President's Awards were especially focused on civil rights, honoring those who helped champion racial equality in the US and break down racial barriers in specific fields. Obama will give out 3 posthumous medals to James Cheney, Michael Schwerner ...

and Andrew Goodman. Three young activists murdered in 1964 for participating in Mississippi's Civil Rights campaign. The three men were executed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, while traveling to Mississippi for the Freedom Summer, a volunteer movement to register African American voters. Their deaths shocked the nation, and the three became icons in the fight for equal rights. The President will also honor professional golfer Charles Sifford, who was instrumental in desegregating the Professional Golfing Association. He was 40 years old when the league finally dropped its whites only rule in 1961.

He went on to win PGA titles in 1967 and 1969. And another posthumous medal will be awarded to Alvin Alley. The choreographer who is credited with furthering African- American representation in modern dance. His Revelation still ranks among the most popular modern dance performances. Finally, there's John Dingell. The Detroit representative who holds the record for longest serving member of Congress. Dingell was a constant supporter of Civil Rights legislation. Backing all but one of the Johnson Administration's bills on the subject. Civil rights has been a recurring theme in the administration's medal of freedom choices.

Last year Obama awarded medals to Bayer Rustin and C. T Vivian. Two prominent leaders of the civil rights movement. The medals of freedom will be awarded during a white house ceremony on November 24th

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