Coretta Scott King Award
The Coretta Scott King Award, named for the American Civil Rights leader and wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is awarded annually to an African-American author and an African-American illustrator for titles that are deemed "outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution[s]." The award-winning titles are selected by the Coretta Scott King Award Committee of the American Library Association's Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table.
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2008
Text – Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustration – Let it Shine, written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
2007
Text – Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Illustration – Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom by Kadir Nelson, Text – by Carole Boston Weatherford.
2006
Text – Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
Illustration – Rosa by Bryan Collier
2005
Text – Remember the Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
Illustration – Ellington Was Not a Street by Kadir Nelson
2004
Text – The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Illustration – Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan
2003
Text – Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Illustration – Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by E.B. Lewis
2002
Text – The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustration – Goin' Someplace Special by Jerry Pinkney
2001
Text – Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
Illustration – Uptown by Bryan Collier
2000
Text – Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustration – In the Time of the Drums by Brian Pinkney
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1999
Text – Heaven by Angela Johnson
Illustration – I See the Rhythm by Michele Wood
1998
Text – Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
Illustration –In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Javaka Steptoe
1997
Text – Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Jerry Pinkney
1996
Text – Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton
Illustration –The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo by Tom Feelings (Introduction by John Henrik Clarke)
1995
Text – Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
Illustration – The Creation by James Ransome, Text – by James Weldon Johnson
1994
Text – Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Illustration – Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Tom Feelings
1993
Text – The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patrica McKissack
Illustration – The Origin Of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by Kathleen Atkins Wilson, Text – by David A. Anderson
1992
Text – Now Is Your Time! The Africian-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
1991
Text – The Road To Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustration –Aida by Leo and Diane Dillon, Text – by Leontyne Price
1990
Text – A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
Illustration – Nathaniel Talking by Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Text – by Eloise Greenfield
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1989
Text – Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – Mirandy And Brother Wind by Jerry Pinkney, Text – by Patricia McKissack
1988
Text – The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustration – Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
1987
Text – Justin And The Best Biscuits In The World by Mildred Pitts Walter
Illustration – Half A Moon And One Whole Star by Jerry Pinkey, Text – by Crecent Dragonwagon
1986
Text – The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virgina Hamilton
Illustration – The Patchwork Quilt by Jerry Pinkney, Text – by Valerie Flournoy
1985
Text – Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
1984
Text – Everett Anderson's Goodbye by Lucille Clifton
Illustration – My Mama Needs Me by Pat Cummings, Text – by Mildred Pitts Walter
1983
Text – Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virgina Hamilton
Illustration – Black Child by Peter Magubane
1982
Text – Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
Illustration – Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale From Senegal by John Steptoe, Text – adapted by Rosa Guy
1981
Text –This Life by Sidney Poitier
Illustration – Beat The Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
1980
Text – The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Illustration – Cornrows by Carole Byard, Text – by Camille Yarbrough
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1979
Text – Escape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis
Illustration – Something On My Mind by Tom Feelings, Text – by Nikki Grimes
1978
Text – Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield
Illustration – by Carole Byard
1977
The Story Of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins
1976
Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey
1975
The Legend Of Africania by Dorothy Robinson, Illustration – by Herbert Temple
1974
Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis, Illustration – by George Ford
1973
I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett
1972
Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax
1971
Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae H. Rollins
1970
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson
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