U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor facts for kids
The United States Department of Labor Hall of Honor is in the Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC. It is a monument to honor Americans who have made a positive contribution to how people in the United States work and live.
Hall of Honor
The people and groups who are honored have all improved , wages, and over-all quality of life for American workers. The Hall of Honor (first called the Hall of Fame) was first planned during the John F. Kennedy administration in 1962. The hall was actually started in 1988. The people to be given this honor are selected each year by a panel inside the Department of Labor. Each must have made a major contribution and the award is given posthumously (after they have died).
Inductees
Those who have been inducted into the Hall of Honor are:
- 1989 - Cyrus S. Ching
- 1989 - John R. Commons
- 1989 - Samuel Gompers
- 1989 - John L. Lewis
- 1989 - George Meany
- 1989 - James P. Mitchell
- 1989 - Frances Perkins
- 1989 - A. Philip Randolph
- 1990 - Eugene V. Debs
- 1990 - Henry J. Kaiser
- 1990 - Walter P. Reuther
- 1990 - Robert F. Wagner
- 1991 - Mary Anderson
- 1991 - Philip Murray
- 1992 - Sidney Hillman
- 1992 - Mother Jones
- 1993 - David Dubinsky
- 1994 - George W. Taylor
- 1995 - Arthur J. Goldberg
- 1996 - William Green
- 1997 - David A. Morse
- 1998 - Cesar Chavez
- 1999 - Terence V. Powderly
- 2000 - Joseph A. Beirne
- 2002 - 9/11 Rescue workers
- 2003 - Paul Hall
- 2003 - Milton Hershey
- 2003 - Steve Young
- 2004 - Harley-Davidson: William S. Harley; Arthur Davidson; Walter Davidson; and William A. Davidson
- 2005 - Robert Wood Johnson
- 2005 - Peter J. Brennan
- 2006 - Charles R. Walgreen
- 2006 - Alfred E. Smith
- 2007 - Adolphus Busch
- 2007 - William B. Wilson
- 2008 - John Willard Marriott
- 2008 - Leonard F. Woodcock
- 2010 - Justin Dart, Jr.
- 2019 - Helen Keller
- 2011 - The Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike
- 2012 - The Pioneers of the Farm Worker Movement
- 2012 - Rev. Addie Wyatt
- 2012 - Tony Mazzocchi
- 2012 - Mark Ayers
- 2012 - Dolores Huerta
- 2013 - Bayard Rustin
- 2013 - Esther Peterson
- 2014 - The Chinese Railroad Workers
- 2015 - Ted Kennedy
- 2016 - Frank Kameny
- 2017 - Ronald Reagan
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U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor, showcase highlighting the life-changing contributions that women, men, groups and organizations have made which have had a profound, positive impact on the American way of work and the American way of life.
