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OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION 1994-2002 |
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OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION 1994-2002 |
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VERNON E. JORDAN, JR.
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Founded by Dr. Alex Boyd, the Director of the Newark, New Jersey Public Library, the BCALA Awards honor outstanding work by African American authors. Winners receive the BCALA Medallion and an honorarium of $500. Winners are announced during the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting and the Awards are presented at the Annual Conference. The winners of the Literary Award for Nonfiction are as follows.
| 2002 | Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. | Vernon Can Read! |
| 2001 | Larry Eugene Rivers | Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation |
| 2000 | Adele Logan Alexander | Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926 |
| 1999 | Carolyn Mazloomi | Spirits of the Cloth: Comtempoary African American Quilts |
| 1998 | Toi Derricotte | The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey |
| 1997 | Nell Irvin Painter | Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol |
| 1996 | Herb Boyd & Robert L. Allen | Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America |
| 1995 | Sara Lawrence Lightfoot | I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation |
| 1994 | David Levering Lewis | W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
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