- He was a personal photographer to Nelson Mandela, television star Philip Michael Thomas, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, and two U.S. senators.
- Haywood is the 2013 recipient of Ford Motor Company National Unsung Hero Award.
- Haywood made history in the field of photojournalism four times. He was the only photojournalist in the world to have daily access to what is still the largest criminal court case in the history of America: the OJ Simpson double murder trial "the trial of the century." He was also the only black journalists to be in the courtroom every day of the trial.
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