Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom it was announced Monday. The highest honor bestowed upon American citizens will be handed to Brokaw in a White House ceremony on November 24th.

Included in the list of recipients are Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep, Tony Award-winning composer Stephen Sondheim (who wrote the upcoming film Into the Woods, starring Streep) as well as Motown legend Stevie Wonder.

Other recipients announced yesterday, as chronicled by the NJ.com:

• writer Isabel Allende
• physicist Mildred Dresselhaus
• legislator John Dingell, the longest-serving Congressman in American history
• human rights and environmental activist Ethel Kennedy
• Native American writer and activist Suzan Harjo
• Abner Mikva, a former Congressman and chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
• APatsy Takemoto Mink, a Hawai'ian congresswoman, the first woman of color elected to Congress and a co-author of Title IX
• Edward Roybal, the first Mexican-American to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from California in nearly a century
• professional golfer Charles Sifford, who helped desegregate the PGA
• economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow
• James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the Freedom Riders who were killed in Mississippi in 1964 for attempting to register African-American voters.