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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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1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

2000s

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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1990s

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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1980s

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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1970s

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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