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FOR A CHILDREN'S BOOK BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR 1970-2003 |
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| CORETTA SCOTT KING | NIKKI GRIMES |
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FOR A CHILDREN'S BOOK BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR 1970-2003 |
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| CORETTA SCOTT KING | NIKKI GRIMES |
The Award is designed to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination in continuing to work for peace and world brotherhood. The Award which was first made in 1970 is presented annually by the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Roundtable to an African American author for an outstandingly inspirational and educational book published during the previous year. A separate award for illustration was added in 1979.
| 2003 | Nikki Grimes | Bronx Masquerade |
| 2002 | Mildred D. Taylor | The Land |
| 2001 | Jacqueline Woodson | Miracle's Boys |
| 2000 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy |
| 1999 | Angela Johnson | Heaven |
| 1998 | Sharon M. Draper | Forged by Fire |
| 1997 | Walter Dean Myers | Slam! |
| 1996 | Virginia Hamilton | Her Stories |
| 1995 | Patricia & Frederick McKissack | Christmas in the House, Christmas in the Quarters |
| 1994 | Angela Johnson | Toning the Sweep |
| 1993 | Patricia McKissack | The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural |
| 1992 | Walter Dean Myers | Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom |
| 1991 | Mildred D. Taylor | The Road to Memphis |
| 1990 | Patricia & Frederick McKissack | A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter |
| 1989 | Walter Dean Myers | Fallen Angels |
| 1988 | Mildred D. Taylor | The Friendship |
| 1987 | Mildred Pitts Walter | Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World |
| 1986 | Virginia Hamilton | The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
| 1985 | Walter Dean Myers | Motown and Didi |
| 1984 | Lucille Clifton | Everett Anderson's Goodbye |
| 1983 | Virginia Hamilton | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush |
| 1982 | Mildred D. Taylor | Let the Circle Be Unbroken |
| 1981 | Sidney Poitier | This Life |
| 1980 | Walter Dean Myers | The Young Landlords |
| 1979 | Ossie Davis | Escape to Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass |
| 1978 | Eloise Greenfield | Africa Dream |
| 1977 | James Haskins | The Story of Stevie Wonder |
| 1976 | Pearl Bailey | Duey's Tale |
| 1975 | Dorothy Robinson | The Legend of Africania |
| 1974 | Sharon Bell Mathis | Ray Charles |
| 1973 | Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett | I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson |
| 1972 | Elton C. Fax | Seventeen Black Artists |
| 1971 | Charlemae H. Rollins | Black Troubadour: Langston Hughes |
| 1970 | Lillie Patterson | Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace |
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