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.
2007
Jean-Marie Denis (also known as Jan Mapou)
Tomás Granado
Almann Ulysse
2006
Wayne and Marty Scott
MICHAEL A. BERG
AIDA ETCHEGOYEN
Liliane Nérette Louis
2005
Wayne Martin
Michael Kernahan
Ruby C. Williams
2004
Manuel Velazquez
Konstantinos Maris
Stuart Pacetti
2003
TROY DEMPS
KAUII'HEALANI MAHIKOA BRANDT
2002
CHARLES ATKINS
Sullivan and Iola Pugh*
J. Russell Reaver*
David "Rock Bottom" C. York*
2001
Richard Seaman*
Henry Ohumukini, Jr.
James Kelly
Alexander J. Jasiukowicz
EUGENIA SISINNI FITCHEN
BOBBY HENRY
2000
Joseph Killgore*
Joe Zeytoonian
1999
Willie James
Edward J. Keeney
Clayton Raulerson*
BARBARA BEAUCHAMP
CLAYTON RAULERSON*
1998
HENRY JOHN BILLIE*
J. L. McMullen
Ola Kryway
Lewellyn Roberts*
Manuel Vega, Sr.
1997
Maude E. Scott
Robert James Rudd
Alexander McBride*
THE EPSTEIN BROTHERS
1996
EMELIA FERNANDEZ
DON GROOMS*
Kazuko Law
1995
Margaret Horvath
WILLIE CLAUDE EASON*
Glen Simmons
1994
Tommy E. Walton*
JOHN K. GIANAROS*
Major Hollis* , Gainsville,
Betty Mae Jumper
Neal "Pappy" McCormick*
1993
Bobby Thomas Johns
Willie David Jones*
Gamble Rogers*
Frank and Ann Thomas
1992
The Versiteers
Charles "Charlie" Lewis
BILL AND JEAN HEWITT
LYDIA CABRERA*
WILLIAM "WASHBOARD BILL" COOKE*
JULIAN "GOOSE" CULBREATH*
1991
MYRTLE E. DUDLEY*
Theophalis May*
Xavier Lopez Pellicer*
Mario Sanchez*
Ray Singleton*
1990
Will McLean*
George Katsaros*
GEORGE CUSTER
ANA ISASI BLANCO
CARL ALLEN*
1989
E.W. CARSWELL*
Zora Neale Hurston*
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings*
Robert "Chubby" Russell Wise*
Nikitas Tsimouris*
1988
Alton C. Morris*
Flora Mae Hunter*
Stetson Kennedy
TOM GASKINS*
1987
IDA GOODSON*
J. P. "CURLY" DEKLE*
Ralph Steele Boggs*
1986
EDWARD L. FLEMMING, JR.*
Mary "Diamond Teeth Mary" Smith McClain*
1985
Nancy Morgan
SUSIE JIM BILLIE*
THELMA BOLTIN*
LUCREATY CLARK*
E.A. "Frog" Smith, Jr.*
Lillian Saunders*
(* = deceased)