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Category: Realizing the Dream Award Videos

Marissa Navarro – Realizing the Dream

Posted on February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 by Max

UA Junior Marissa Navarro received the 2018 Horizon Award for her efforts in founding the first campus Hispanic Latino Association for students, faculty and staff. “Our main focus is to recruit, retain and graduate Hispanic and Latino students,” Navarro said, to make sure they do not get lost on the nearly 40,000-student campus. “Facing racism…

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Ellen G. Spears – Realizing the Dream

Posted on February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 by Max

The 2018 Call to Conscience Award went to UA Professor Ellen G. Spears, author of “Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town.” Spears said she received a first-hand education from civil rights leaders, many of whom were from Alabama and became an environmental researcher to bring an end to the disproportionate…

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Rev. Frank Dukes – Realizing the Dream

Posted on February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 by Max

The Rev. Frank Dukes was the recipient of the 2018 Mountaintop Award for his efforts in leading the Birmingham Selective Buying Campaign of 1962, while working as director of alumni affairs and public relations at Miles College, his alma mater. At the time, blacks legally could only work labor jobs and blacks and whites could…

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