The following people received the Candace Award between 1982 and 1992.[{{cite web |website=National Coalition of 100 Black Women |title=CANDACE AWARD RECIPIENTS 1982–1990, Page 1 |url=http://www.ncbw.org/programs/award1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030314021634/http://www.ncbw.org/programs/award1.html |archive-date=March 14, 2003 }}][{{cite web |website=National Coalition of 100 Black Women |title=CANDACE AWARD RECIPIENTS 1982–1990, Page 2 |url=http://www.ncbw.org/programs/award2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030314212510/http://www.ncbw.org/programs/award2.html |archive-date=March 14, 2003 }}][{{cite web |website=National Coalition of 100 Black Women |title=CANDACE AWARD RECIPIENTS 1982–1990, Page 3 |url=http://www.ncbw.org/programs/award3.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030314213306/http://www.ncbw.org/programs/award3.html |archive-date=March 14, 2003 }}][{{cite journal |title=Camille Cosby, Kathleen Battle Win Candace Awards |journal=Jet |date=July 20, 1992 |volume= 82 |issue=13 |pages=16–17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16 }}]
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Recipient
! Category
! Note |
|---|
| 1989
| Margaret Walker Alexander
| Letters
| |
| 1990
| Maya Angelou
| Letters
| |
| 1983
| Gloria Jackson Bacon
| Health
| Founder and director of a not-for-profit clinic in Chicago[{{cite web |website=The History Makers |title=Dr. Gloria Jackson Bacon |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/dr-gloria-jackson-bacon-39}}] |
| 1984
| Ella Baker
| Civil Rights Activist
| |
| 1983
| Etta Moten Barnett
| Letters
| |
| 1992
| Kathleen Battle
|
| |
| 1984
| Daisy Bates
| Civil Rights Activist
| |
| 1990
| Derrick Bell
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1984
| Mary Bell
| Communications
| First black woman to head a broadcasting company[{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |title=NEW YORK DAY BY DAY; Thinking of Achievement |date=November 8, 1984 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/08/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-thinking-of-achievement.html}}] |
| 1982
| Lerone Bennett, Jr.
| History
| |
| 1983
| Antoinette Bianchi
| Technology
| Founder of electronics firms in Maryland and Florida[{{cite journal |journal=Ebony |title=From Welfare to a Million-Dollar High-Tech Firm |page=140 |date=February 1984}}] |
| 1983
| Selma Burke
| Art
| |
| 1986
| Mary Schmidt Campbell
| Art
| |
| 1986
| Alexa Canady
| Science
| |
| 1991
| Elizabeth Catlett
|
| |
| 1984
| Leah Lange Chase
| Business
| New Orleans chef and restaurateur |
| 1983
| Mamie Phipps Clark
| Humanitarianism
| |
| 1982
| Jewel Plummer Cobb
| Education
| |
| 1988
| Johnnetta B. Cole
| Education
| |
| 1987
| Johnnie Colemon
| Theology
| |
| 1989
| Janet Collins
| Arts
| |
| 1983
| Mattie Cook
| Community Service
| President of Malcolm-King Harlem College Extension in Harlem[{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |title=DR. MATTIE COOK, COLLEGE CHIEF |date=April 15, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/15/obituaries/dr-mattie-cook-college-chief.html}}] |
| 1992
| Camille Cosby
|
| |
| 1989
| Patricia Cowings
| Science/Technology
| |
| 1989
| Carolyn Craven
| Journalism
| Reporter on KQED-TV[{{cite web |website=SFGate |title=Carolyn Craven, Reporter For KQED's 'Newsroom' |date=November 22, 2000 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Carolyn-Craven-Reporter-For-KQED-s-Newsroom-2695415.php }}] |
| 1987
| Christine Mann Darden
| Technology
| |
| 1992
| Julie Dash
|
| |
| 1986
| Eloise DeLaine
| Technology
| Specialist in aviation medicine[{{cite news |newspaper=Indianapolis Recorder |date=July 12, 1986 |title=Editorial |url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INR19860712-01.1.11 }}] |
| 1983
| Suzanne de Passe
| Business
| |
| 1989
| Suzanne de Passe
| Trailblazer
| |
| 1986
| Helen O. Dickens
| Health
| |
| 1991
| Sharon Pratt Dixon
|
| |
| 1988
| Beulah Mae Donald
| Civil Rights
| Mother of Michael Donald; successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan |
| 1990
| Hazel N. Dukes
| Community Service
| |
| 1984
| Patricia A. Duncanson
| Economic Development
| President of an electrical contracting company |
| 1987
| Katherine Dunham
| Trailblazer
| |
| 1982
| Marian Wright Edelman
| Community Service
| |
| 1982
| Helen G. Edmonds
| History
| First black woman to second the nomination for a US presidential candidate[{{cite web |website=Black Past |title=Edmonds, Helen Grey (1911–1995) |date=24 September 2010 |url=http://www.blackpast.org/aah/edmonds-helen-grey-1911-1995}}] |
| 1991
| Joycelyn Elders
|
| |
| 1982
| Doris A. Evans
| Health and Science
| Pediatrician; "community innovator and philanthropist"[{{cite web |website=EWorldWire |title=Health Legacy of Cleveland Press Release |date=November 6, 2015 |url=http://www.eworldwire.com/pressreleases/213082 |access-date=September 16, 2016 |archive-date=October 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013091706/http://www.eworldwire.com/pressreleases/213082 |url-status=usurped }}] |
| 1988
| Michael A. Figures
| Civil Rights
| Alabama state senator; prosecuted KKK members in lynching[{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 1, 1987 |title=The Woman Who Beat the Klan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/01/magazine/the-woman-who-beat-the-klan.html?pagewanted=all}}] |
| 1991
| Ann M. Fudge
|
| |
| 1992
| Vicki L. Fuller
|
| Wall Street executive |
| 1983
| Mary Hatwood Futrell
| Education
| Educator, president of the NEA[{{cite web |website=The History Makers |title=Mary Hatwood Futrell |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/mary-hatwood-futrell-40}}] |
| 1988
| Althea Gibson
| Trailblazer
| |
| 1984
| Paula Giddings
| History
| |
| 1987
| Cheryl Glass
| Trailblazer
| First black female American racing driver |
| 1982
| Bonnie Guiton
| Business
| First black woman to serve in the cabinet of a California governor[{{cite news |newspaper=LA Times |title=Bonnie Guiton, 1st Black Woman in Cabinet, to Quit |date=May 8, 1992 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-08-mn-1906-story.html }}] |
| 1989
| Beverly Guy-Sheftall
| Education
| |
| 1990
| Clara M. Hale
| Humanitarian
| |
| 1991
| Ruth Wright Hayre
|
| President of the Philadelphia Board of Education |
| 1986
| Dorothy I. Height
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1986
| Freddye S. Henderson
| Business
| Pioneered the promotion of travel and tourism to Africa[{{cite web |publisher=Africa Travel Association |title=Mrs. Freddye Henderson Has Earned a Special Place in the Hearts of Africa Travel Association (ATA) Members Worldwide |url=http://www.africa-ata.org/mrs_henderson.htm }}] |
| 1988
| Vy Higginsen
| Business
| Founder of the Mama Foundation for the Arts[{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/arts/14reun.html |title=At a Harlem Reunion, a Rancher From Missouri Meets His 'DNA Cousins' |date=March 14, 2007}}] |
| 1988
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault
| Journalism
| |
| 1992
| Hal Jackson
|
| |
| 1982
| Shirley Ann Jackson
| Technology
| |
| 1990
| Judith Jamison
| Arts| | Dancer and choreographer, Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| 1989
| John H. Johnson
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1987
| Pam McAllister Johnson
| Communications
| President and publisher of the Ithaca Journal[{{cite journal |journal=Black Enterprise |title=Pressing for Power |date=April 1985 |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lF8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42 |last1=Earl g. Graves |first1=Ltd }}] |
| 1984
| Hazel Johnson-Brown
| Health
| |
| 1992
| Leonade Jones
|
| Treasurer for the Washington Post Co. |
| 1987
| Coretta Scott King
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1983
| Jewel Lafontant
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1990
| Barbara Lamont
| Business
| First black woman to own a television station[{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 17, 1990 |title=CHRONICLE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/17/style/chronicle-114890.html }}] |
| 1992
| Queen Latifah
|
| |
| 1990
| Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
| Education
| |
| 1983
| LaSalle D. Leffall Jr.
| Science
| |
| 1983
| Ruth Love
| Education
| |
| 1982
| Lois Mailou Jones
| Arts and Letters
| |
| 1986
| Maida Springer Kemp
| Labor
| |
| 1991
| Brian Lanker
|
| |
| 1991
| Jennifer Lawson
|
| PBS executive vice president |
| 1982
| Claudine B. Malone
| Economic Development
| CEO of consulting firm; named Ebony No. 1 Black Director in 1997[{{cite journal |journal=Ebony |date=January 1997 |title=Top Black Corporate Directors |page=38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wvQh4Sjlw8C&pg=PA38}}] |
| 1988
| Winnie Mandela
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1992
| Joan McCarley
|
| Co-founder of Grandma's House, the first residential facility for HIV-infected children in the U.S. |
| 1991
| La-Doris McClaney
|
| Los Angeles real-estate executive and philanthropist |
| 1990
| Gay J. McDougall
| International Affairs
| |
| 1989
| Gina Barclay McLaughlin
| Community Service
| Child development specialist[{{cite web |publisher=University of Tennessee |title=Dr. Gina Barclay-McLaughlin |url=http://web.utk.edu/~iece/pages/barclaymclaughlin.html |access-date=2016-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013123126/http://web.utk.edu/~iece/pages/barclaymclaughlin.html |archive-date=2016-10-13 |url-status=dead }}] |
| 1986
| Mable Parker McLean
| Education
| First female president of Barber-Scotia College[{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of African-American Education |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |date=1996 |isbn=9780313289316 |pages=285–286 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ni2qhq1n1d4C&pg=PA285 }}] |
| 1992
| Michel McQueen
|
| |
| 1982
| Sybil C. Mobley
| Economic Development
| |
| 1984
| Undine S. Moore
| Education
| |
| 1992
| Sybil Hayden Morial
|
| Community activist and dean of Xavier University's Drexel Center |
| 1984
| Constance Baker Motley
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1982
| Diane Powell Murray
| Technology
| Mathematician[{{cite book |last1=Warren |first1=Wini |title=Black Women Scientists in the United States |date=1999 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=9780253336033 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/blackwomenscient00warr/page/201 201]–203 |url=https://archive.org/details/blackwomenscient00warr |url-access=registration }}] |
| 1986
| Gloria Naylor
| Letters
| |
| 1986
| Nell Irvin Painter
| History
| |
| 1990
| Euzhan Palcy
| Trailblazer
| |
| 1984
| Rosa L. Parks
| Civil Rights Activist
| |
| 1984
| Jennie R. Patrick
| Science and Technology
| |
| 1986
| Frederick D. Patterson
| Trailblazer
| |
| 1988
| Ethel L. Payne
| Trailblazer
| |
| 1982
| Flaxie Madison Pinkett
| Business
| Civic leader, philanthropist[{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 17, 1995 |title=FLAXIE MADISON PINKETT |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/05/17/flaxie-madison-pinkett/c934a216-94bb-44df-84d0-3eca7f904932/ }}] |
| 1990
| Vivian Pinn
| Science
| |
| 1991
| Bernice Johnson Reagon
|
| |
| 1989
| Condoleezza Rice
| International Affairs
| |
| 1984
| Faith Ringgold
| Arts and Letters
| |
| 1982
| Rachel Robinson
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1986
| Rose Mary Sanders, Esq.
| Law
| First black female judge in Alabama[{{cite news |newspaper=Gadsden Times |date=October 28, 1990 |title=Mrs. Sanders to speak at banquet |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19901028&id=22EfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oNQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1779,3428692}}] |
| 1992
| Hazle J. Shorter
|
| First black woman physician in the corporate history of DuPont |
| 1992
| Jessie Carney Smith
|
| Black history scholar and author |
| 1982
| Jeanne Sinkford
| Health and Science
| |
| 1992
| Percy Sutton
|
| |
| 1992
| Debbie Tate
|
| Co-founder of Grandma's House, the first residential facility for HIV-infected children in the U.S. |
| 1986
| Susan L. Taylor
| Communications
| |
| 1986
| Debi Thomas
| Trailblazer
| |
| 1983
| Rosina Tucker
| Labor
| |
| 1986
| Nomalizo Leah Tutu
| Humanitarianism
| Wife of Desmond Tutu; advocate for rights of women and workers[{{cite news |newspaper=Anglican News |title=Apartheid heroes honoured for their peace and justice work |date=April 27, 2016 |url=http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2016/04/apartheid-heroes-honoured-for-their-peace-and-justice-work.aspx}}] |
| 1988
| Cicely Tyson
| Distinguished Service
| |
| 1982
| Alice Walker
| Arts and Letters
| |
| 1983
| Patricia Walker-Shaw
| Economic Development
| |
| 1988
| Mary Helen Washington
| History
| Black history scholar[{{cite web |publisher=University of Maryland |title=Mary Helen Washington |url=http://www.english.umd.edu/featured_profiles/6006 |access-date=2016-09-16 |archive-date=2019-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416152237/http://www.english.umd.edu/featured_profiles/6006 |url-status=dead }}] |
| 1992
| Maxine Waters
|
| |
| 1989
| Mary Lee Widener
| Economic Development
| CEO and President of Neighborhood Housing Services of America[{{cite web |website=Operation Hope |title=Mary Lee Widener |url=https://www.operationhope.org/hopeboardmember/sgc/1/c/86 |access-date=2016-09-16 |archive-date=2017-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017063425/http://www.operationhope.org/hopeboardmember/sgc/1/c/86 |url-status=dead }}] |
| 1984
| Eddie N. Williams
| Public Service
| Public affairs specialist |
| 1983
| Sylvia Williams
| History
| |
| 1987
| Barbara J. Wilson
| Business
| First black woman auto dealer[{{cite news |newspaper=Washington Afro-American |date=June 23, 1987 |title=National Coalition honors black women}}] |
| 1988
| Donna Wood
| Arts and Letters
| Lead dancer in Alvin Ailey Company[{{cite web |website=Thirteen |title=Donna Wood |url=http://www.thirteen.org/freetodance/biographies/wood.html}}] |
| 1982
| Sara-Alyce Wright
| Community Service
| First black executive director of the YWCA[{{cite journal |journal=Jet |date=September 5, 1974 |title=Ticker Tape U.S.A. |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11}}] |
