The Thomas Merton Award has been awarded since 1972 by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh, United States. It is named after Thomas Merton and is given annually to "national and international individuals struggling for justice."
Award recipients
1972: James P. Carroll 1973: Dorothy Day 1974: Dick Gregory 1975: Joan Baez 1976: Dom Hélder Câmara 1977: Dick Hughes 1978: Bishop John Harris Burt & Bishop James Malone 1979: Helen Caldicott 1980: William Winpisinger 1981: The people of Poland 1982: Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen 1983: not awarded 1984: Bernice Johnson Reagon 1985: Henri Nouwen 1986: Allan Boesak 1987: Miguel D'Escoto 1988: Daniel Berrigan 1989: Comrades of El Salvador & Elizabeth Linder 1990: Marian Wright Edelman 1991: Howard Zinn 1992: Molly Rush 1993: Reverend Lucius Walker 1994: Richard Rohr OFM 1995: Marian Kramer 1996: Winona LaDuke 1997: Ron Chisom 1998: Studs Terkel 1999: Wendell Berry 2000: Ronald V. Dellums 2001: Sister Joan Chittister 2002: Bishop Leontine T. Kelly 2003: Voices in the Wilderness 2004: Amy Goodman 2005: Reverend Roy Bourgeois 2006: Angela Davis 2007: Cindy Sheehan 2008: Malik Rahim 2009: Dennis Kucinich 2010: Noam Chomsky 2011: Vandana Shiva 2013: Martin Sheen 2014: Jeremy Scahill 2015: Barbara Lee 2016: Frida BerriganReferences
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