Leon Sullivan
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1922-2001) · United States · On the map · Died at 78
Leon Howard Sullivan 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.
Leon Sullivan is read about 20 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 17 August 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
2001Died24 April 20011998Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human RightsAward1991Presidential Medal of FreedomAward1977Phoenix AwardAward1975Greatest Public Service Benefiting the DisadvantagedAward1971Spingarn MedalAward1922Born16 October 1922
Media & music
Awards
About this person
Country
United States
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 2001 · aged 78
