On wednesday i.e., 17 Nov, In a statement, White House said the following would receive the medal:
- Democratic Congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights leader and one-time associate of Martin Luther King
- Environmental activist and lawyer John Adams
- Artist Jasper Johns
- Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein
- Dr Tom Little (posthumously), who was executed by the Taliban in August while on an aid mission
- Civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez
- Baseball great Stan Musial
- Bill Russell, the first black coach in the US National Basketball Association;
- Former ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith, sister to late President John Kennedy
- Longtime labour leader John Sweeney.
Src: [BBC]
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