Awards & Honors
- Guggenheim Fellowships, 1972 and 1977
- Nominatee 1971 Grammy Awards, Best Jazz Performance - Group, for the album Giants, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hackett, Mary Lou Williams
- Honorary degree, from Fordham University in New York in 1973
- In 1980 Williams founded the Mary Lou Williams Foundation
- Received the 1981 Duke University's Duke's Trinity Award for service to the university. In 1983, Duke University established the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
- Since 1996, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has an annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival
- Since 2000, her archives are preserved at Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies in Newark.
- A Pennsylvania State Historic Marker is placed at 328 Lincoln Ave., Lincoln Elementary School, Pittsburgh, PA noting her accomplishments and the location of the school she attended.
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