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FOR A CHILDREN'S BOOK BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR 1979-2003 |
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FOR A CHILDREN'S BOOK BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR 1979-2003 |
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E.B. LEWIS
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This 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 1979 is presented annually by the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association to an African American illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational book published during the previous year. When the author is not also the illustrator the author's name appears in parentheses after the illustrator's name in the following table.
| 2003 | E.B. Lewis | Talkin' About Bessie |
| 2002 | Jerry Pinkney (Patricia McKissock) | Goin' Someplace Special |
| 2001 | Bryan Collier | Uptown |
| 2000 | Brian Pinkney (Kim L. Siegelson) | In the Time of the Drums |
| 1999 | Michele Wood (Toyomi Igus) | i see the rhythm |
| 1998 | Javaka Steptoe | In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers |
| 1997 | Jerry Pinkney (Alan Schroeder) | Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman |
| 1996 | Tom Feelings (Introduction by John Henrik Clarke) | The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo |
| 1995 | James Ransome (James Weldon Johnson) | The Creation |
| 1994 | Tom Feelings | Soul Looks Back in Wonder |
| 1993 | Kathleen Atkins Wilson (David A. Anderson) | The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth |
| 1992 | Faith Ringgold | Tar Beach |
| 1991 | Leo & Diane Dillon (Leontyne Price) | Aida |
| 1990 | Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Eloise Greenfield) | Nathaniel Talking |
| 1989 | Jerry Pinkney (Patricia McKissack) | Mirandy and Brother Wind |
| 1988 | John Steptoe | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale |
| 1987 | Jerry Pinkey (Crescent Dragonwagon) | Half a Moon and One Whole Star |
| 1986 | Jerry Pinkney (Valerie Flournoy) | The Patchwork Quilt |
| 1985 | No award | |
| 1984 | Pat Cummings (Mildred Pitts Walter) | My Mama Needs Me |
| 1983 | Peter Magubane | Black Child |
| 1982 | John Steptoe (Rosa Guy) | Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal |
| 1981 | Ashley Bryan | Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum |
| 1980 | Carole Byard (Camille Yarbrough) | Cornrows |
| 1979 | Tom Feelings (Nikki Grimes) | Something on My Mind |
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