Coretta Scott King Award
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The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the American Library Association. Named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., this award recognizes outstanding African American authors and illustrators. The book must be about the African American experience, and be written for a youth audience (high school or below).
[edit] Author Awards
- 2005: Toni Morrison, Remember: The Journey to School Integration, ISBN 0618459677
- 2004: Angela Johnson, The First Part Last, ISBN 0689849222
- 2003: Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade, ISBN 0803725698
- 2002: Mildred Taylor, The Land, ISBN 0803719507
- 2001: Jacqueline Woodson, Miracle's Boys, ISBN 0399231137
- 2000: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy, ISBN 003065484X
- 1999: Angela Johnson, Heaven, ISBN 0689822901
- 1998: Sharon M. Draper, Forged By Fire, ISBN 0689818513
- 1997: Walter Dean Myers, Slam, ISBN 0590486675
- 1996: Virginia Hamilton, Her Stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales, ISBN 0590566032
- 1995: Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack, Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, ISBN 0590430270
- 1994: Angela Johnson Toning the Sweep, ISBN 1860391001
- 1993: Patricia C. McKissack, Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, ISBN 0679883355
- 1992: Walter Dean Myers, Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom, ISBN 0060243716
- 1991: Mildred Taylor, The Road to Memphis, ISBN 0803703406
- 1990: Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack, A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter, ISBN 0802768857
- 1989: Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels, ISBN 0590409433
- 1988: Mildred Taylor, The Friendship, ISBN 0803704178
- 1987: Mildred Pitts Walter, Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, ISBN 0688066453
- 1986: Virginia Hamilton, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, ISBN 0375804714
- 1985: Walter Dean Myers, Motown and Didi: a love story, ISBN 0670490628
- 1984: Lucille Clifton, Everett Anderson’s Good-bye, ISBN 0030635187
- 1983: Virginia Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, ISBN 0399208941
- 1982: Mildred Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, ISBN 0803747489
- 1981: Sidney Poitier, This Life, ISBN 0394505492
- 1980: Walter Dean Myers, The Young Landlords, ISBN 0670794546
- 1979: Ossie Davis, Escape to Freedom, ISBN 0670297755
- 1978: Carol Bayard (illustrator), Africa Dream, ISBN 0690047762
- 1977: James Haskins, The Story of Stevie Wonder, ISBN 0688517404
- 1976: Pearl Bailey, Duey's Tale, ISBN 0151265763
- 1975: Dorothy Robinson, The Legend of Africania, ISBN 0874850371
- 1974: Sharon Bell Mathis, Ray Charles, ISBN 0690670664
- 1973: Alfred Duckett, I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett, ISBN 52329165
- 1972: Eton C. Fax, 17 Black Artists, ISBN 0396063918
- 1971: Charlemae Rollins, Black Troubador: Langston Hughes, OCLC #120580
- 1970: Lillie Patterson, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace, ISBN 081164555X