Cicely Tyson, Diana Ross & Other Black Women Who’ve Received Presidential Medals Of Freedom
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Veronica Wells
Leontyne Price
In the second year after the Presidential Medals of Freedom were awarded, cancer and opera star Leontyne Price received one at 37 years old. President Lyndon B. Johnson presented it to Price for her contributions, including becoming the “first Negro woman to sing famous opera roles.”
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