PORTRAIT OF LEON SULLIVAN along with LARGE COLLECTION OF LEON SULLIVAN PAPERS AND EPHEMERA INCLUDING NAACP IMAGE AWARD framed; lower right signed D. Godbold (American, 20th Century), Oil on canvas: 36 x 26 in.; The portrait sold together with a collection of Leon Sullivan archival materials and ephemera including files and paperwork from Reverend Sullivan's career, along with assorted awards such as a Tiffany & Co. silver award engraved to Reverend Sullivan in 1971 for the Business Week Award for Business Citizenship, which was the year Reverend Sullivan joined the Board of Directors of General Motors as the first African-American member to ever serve on the board. Also included are a 20th Annual NAACP Image Award, the 1987 Roy Wilkins Civil Rights Award, and an Fiorello H. LaGuardia Award presented in 1975 at the Decade of Achievement Dinner Center for New York City Affairs New School for Social Research. Leon Sullivan was an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement as well as the author of the Sullivan Principles, influential guidelines for American business practices in South Africa under apartheid. Reverend Sullivan (American, 1922-2001) was born in Charleston, West Virginia. He attended West Virginia State College and became a Baptist minister. Reverend Adam Clayton Powell met Sullivan during a visit to West Virginia in 1943 and invited him to move to New York City, where he worked as Powell's assistant minister at the Abyssinian Baptist Church while studying at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, where he received a master's degree in Religion in 1947. In 1945 Sullivan became pastor at the First Baptist Church in South Orange, New Jersey, and in 1950 he moved together with his wife Grace to Philadelphia where he took on leadership of the Zion Baptist Church. In the 38 years of Reverend Sullivan's service as pastor of the church he grew the congregation from 600 to 6,000 and his legendary sermons earned him the nickname of "the Lion of Zion." Reverend Sullivan was no less influential in the secular realm, becoming the first black member of General Motors Board of Directors in 1971. The Sullivan Principles were issued in 1977 and are as follows: "1. Nonsegregation of the races in all eating, comfort, and work facilities. 2. Equal and fair employment practices for all employees. 3. Equal pay for all employees doing equal or comparable work for the same period of time. 4. Initiation of and development of training programs that will prepare, in substantial numbers, blacks and other nonwhites for supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs. 5. Increasing the number of blacks and other nonwhites in management and supervisory positions. 6. Improving the quality of life for blacks and other nonwhites outside the work environment in such areas as housing, transportation, school, recreation, and health facilities. 7. Working to eliminate laws and customs that impede social, economic, and political justice. (Added in 1984.)" In 1999 Sullivan and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan introduced the Global Sullivan Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility, which expanded on Sullivan's 1971 Principles and extended them to a worldwide scope. The Global Sullivan Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility are: "As a company which endorses the Global Sullivan Principles we will respect the law, and as a responsible member of society we will apply these Principles with integrity consistent with the legitimate role of business. We will develop and implement company policies, procedures, training and internal reporting structures to ensure commitment to these principles throughout our organisation. We believe the application of these Principles will achieve greater tolerance and better understanding among peoples, and advance the culture of peace. Accordingly, we will: 1. Express our support for universal human rights and, particularly, those of our employees, the communities within which we operate, and parties with whom we do business. 2. Promote equal opportunity for our employees at all levels of the company with respect to issues such as color, race, gender, age, ethnicity or religious beliefs, and operate without unacceptable worker treatment such as the exploitation of children, physical punishment, female abuse, involuntary servitude, or other forms of abuse. 3. Respect our employees' voluntary freedom of association. 4. Compensate our employees to enable them to meet at least their basic needs and provide the opportunity to improve their skill and capability to raise their social and economic opportunities. 5. Provide a safe and healthy workplace; protect human health and the environment; and promote sustainable development. 6. Promote fair competition including respect for intellectual and other property rights, and not offer, pay or accept bribes. 7. Work with governments and communities in which we do business to improve the quality of life in those communities - their educational, cultural, economic and social well-being - and seek to provide training and opportunities for workers from disadvantaged backgrounds. 8. Promote the application of these principles by those with whom we do business. We will be transparent in our implementation of these principles and provide information which demonstrates publicly our commitment to them." This collection includes documents and ephemera from assorted stages of Reverend Sullivan's career, with a concentration towards his later years.