Achievements

13 Grammy awards
A-Tisket, A-Tasket entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame
Kennedy Center for Performing Arts’ Medal of Honor Award
The Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
Pied Piper Award
American Society of Composers
Women at Work organization’s Bicentennial Woman
Authors and Publishers’ highest honor
George And Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement
National Medal of Art
Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation
Received first ASCAP award in recognition of an artist
Honorary doctorate degrees from Dartmouth, Talladega, Howard and Yale Universities
Peabody Award for Outstanding Contributions in Music
The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named “Ella” in her honor
NAACP Award for lifetime achievement