Shanaia Rivera's List: philadelphia Religion

• Reverend Sullivan has long been recognized as a man of unparalleled vision and action. In 1963, Life Magazine cited Reverend Sullivan as one of the 100 outstanding young adults in the United States and, indeed, he went on to become one of the most outstanding people not only in the United States, but also throughout the world.
• In addition to holding honorary doctorate degrees from over 50 colleges and universities, Reverend Sullivan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush, honoring him for his “voice of reason for over forty years” and a lifetime of work in helping the economically and socially disadvantaged people in the world; in November 1999 he received the prestigious Notre Dame Award which is conferred annually on a "person who has achieved international recognition for the contribution to the welfare of humanity"; and in December 1999 he received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from President Bill Clinton who recognized Reverend Sullivan ’s humanitarian efforts around the world.
• Strangely enough in Philadelphia, the big metropolitan city, you think people had work, but discrimination was still very strong . . . I decided to confront discrimination, again, because businesses were not employing blacks in Philadelphia, blacks couldn't even get jobs as waiters in the good hotels."

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