Cicely Tyson, Diana Ross & Other Black Women Who’ve Received Presidential Medals Of Freedom
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Veronica Wells
Pearl Bailey
In 1988, Ronald Regan awarded Bailey, a singer and a Tony-award-winning actress with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But it wasn’t recognized by the highest office in the land. 18 years before, Richard Nixon appointed Bailey the “Ambassador of Love” for the work she did entertaining the troops overseas.
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