For his many contributions to advancing the cause of human rights and improving education and living standards for his people, there was another surprise presentation: Isaac Hayes was honoured with the NAACP’s James Weldon Johnson award.
Rev. Jentzsch said that he was “deeply touched and honoured” by his award, which acknowledged, among other contributions, the Church’s work to vindicate civil rights in the 1970s and his exposure of involuntary experimentation and other abuses of minorities in the name of “mental health.” “This is an especially great honour, as the NAACP is an organization to which all Americans and all free people are indebted,” he added. “By fighting and winning the battles you have taken on, you have brought a future to so many people of all creeds and colours.”
But the message he stressed in accepting the award was appropriately trained on the future, not the past. “The World Literacy Crusade and its affiliated groups have expanded to more than 30 programs in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Canada and elsewhere,” he said, “and with their growth comes ever-greater opportunity to vanquish illiteracy and ignorance everywhere.
“As we move into the 21st century it is time that all peoples be given the opportunity to achieve, and the opportunity to fulfill their true potential.”
    
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