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Alabama Organized Labor Awards Foundation

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The Creed of the Alabama Organized Labor Awards Foundation shall be:

  • To establish the Alabama Organized Labor Awards Foundation as a body to preserve the past, enhance and guard the present, and secure the future of the labor movement in the State of Alabama.
  • To have as its main objective the establishing of a Labor Archives for the preservation and promotion of Alabama's labor heritage.
  • To establish methods for the purpose of honoring past and present leaders in Alabama labor, without regard to race, creed, color, sex, religion, age or national origin.

Link to our Flickr photo album can be found here.

 

ALABAMA ORGANIZED LABOR AWARDS FOUNDATION HONOR ROLL

Labor Person of the Year

2023 - Mark Cochran
2022 - Everett Kelly
2021 - Bill Blackmon
2020 - Ricky Kornegay
2019 - Tony Quillen
2018 - Larry Keel
2017 - Bren Riley
2016 - Larry Spencer
2015 - Casey Shelton
2014 - Daniel Flippo
2013 - Joe Pledger
             Vi Parramore
2012 - Donnie Stanley
2011 - Pat Rabbeitt
2010 - Leroy Nicholson
2009 - Terry Davis
2008 - Al Henley
2007 - Darryl Dewberry
2006 - Connie Entrakin
2005 - Sammie Dodson
2004 - L.R. "Pete" Wethington, Sr.
2003 - William Byron Vice
2002 - Darry R. Price
2001 - Stewart Burkhalter
2000 - Don Langham
1999 - Ruel B. Martin
1998 - Billy Tindle
1997 - Henry Jenkins
1996 - Sidney Hannah
1995 - Jonnie R. Baxter
1994 - George L. Seidenfaden, Sr.
1993 - Buddie Watson King
1992 - Norma C. Powell
1991 - Jerome A. Cooper
1990 - James Albright
             Barney Weeks

FRIEND OF LABOR

2023 - Scott Douglas
2022 - Anthony Daniels
2021 - John H. "Drew" Langloh
2020 - Greg Reed
2019 - Mark Crosswhite
2018 - Allison Washington
2017 - Mike Hale
2016 - Mile Miles
2015 - Billy J. Aderhold
2014 - Bill Frederick
2013 - Terri A. Sewell
2012 - Pat Keahey
2011 - Henry "Hank" Sanders
2010 - Charles D. McCrary
2009 - Blaine Galliher
2008 - Vance McCrary
2007 - Craig Ford
2006 - Ron Sparks
2005 - John L. Quinn
2004 - Joseph W. Perkins
2003 - Bobby Denton
2002 - J. Cecil Gardner
2001 - Ralph Arthur Johnson
2000 - Earl Hilliard
1999 - Lamon Till
1998 - Charles Steele, Jr.
1997 - Joe Ford
1996 - Roger Bedford
1995 - Don Siegelman
1993 - Higdon C. Roberts

HALL OF FAME

2023 - Rick Lambert
             James Crowder
             Fred "Bart" Maddox
             George Wesley Pierson
             Garry Lee "Gabby" Frost
2022 - Marrianne Hayward
             J D Hornsby
             Larry Jackson
             Jerome Peterson
             Mary Ellis Smoot
2021 - Wendell Rigsby
             Cynthia Bonner
             William G. Roberson
             Jo Ella "Jo" Fowler
             Rhonda L. Taylor
2020 - Anthony Young
             Justin "Butch" Mitchell
             Bobby Ray Donald
             John Whitaker
             Deborah Lentz
2019 - Richard G. (Rick) Youngblood
2018 - David Greek
2017 - Jerry Foster
2016 - Vernon Bankston
2015 - Jo Ann & Ann Sheppard
2014 - Earl Brown
2013 - Greg England & Eugene Williams
2012 - Gerald R. Driskell
2011 - William Chambliss
2010 - Mickey Jett & Louise White
2009 - William F. "Freddy" Head
2008 - David Freeze
2007 - Dafford Brewster
2006 - Mel Horton
2005 - Ken Blaylock
2004 - William K. Walker
2003 - James Barnhart
2002 - Bud Hamric
2001 - Asa G. Trammell
2000 - James Swindle
1999 - Hattie Scruggs
1998 - Charles Mays
1997 - William B. Thrash
1996 - James Smith
1995 - Howard Strevel
1994 - Aaron Waldrop &  Russell J. Mills
1993 - Donald O. Cromer
1992 - W. O. Mozingo
1991 - Eula McGill

HALL OF FAME (POSTHUMOUS)

2023 _ Franklin Eugene Sadberry
2022 - Darrell Turner
2021 - Jimmy Thomas
2020 - Joyce Nelson
2019 - Robert (Bobby) Hamner
2018 - Kenneth "WaWa" Walters
2017 - Sally Rodgers
2016 - Homer Wilson
2015 - Henry Jenkins
2014 - Billy Tindle
2013 - Tom Youngblood
2012 - Vester Lawrence Williams
2011 - Charlotte Flowers
2010 - Mary Guerra
2009 - Philip Stanley
2008 - Cecil Robertson
2007 - W. O. Mozingo
2006 - R. R. Brownell
2005 - E. L. "Ernie" Hayes
2004 - E. K. Bowers
2003 - D. E. Kines
2002 - William Mitch
2001 - Robert Molenda
2000 - Sam Littlefield
1999 - Ralph Minor
1998 - Carl Schoettlin
1997 - Hiram Ezell
1996 - Adel Lay
1995 - Jennie Vann Blair