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Coretta Scott King Award

Index Coretta Scott King Award

The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, part of the American Library Association (ALA). [1]

133 relations: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, African Americans, Alexis De Veaux, Alice Childress, American Library Association, Amos Ferguson, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Andrew Aydin, Angela Johnson, Angela Johnson (writer), Angie Thomas, Ashley Bryan, Benny Andrews, Berry Gordy, Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues, Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers, Brown Girl Dreaming, Bryan Collier, Bud, Not Buddy, Candy Dawson Boyd, Carol Fenner, Carole Boston Weatherford, Carole Byard, Charlemae Hill Rollins, Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir, Christian Robinson, Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, Christopher Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Copper Sun, Coretta Scott King, Daniel Minter, Days Of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States, Deborah Wiles, E. B. Lewis (illustrator), Ekua Holmes, Elijah of Buxton, Eloise Greenfield, Elton Fax, Faith Ringgold, Fallen Angels (Myers novel), Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff, Forged by Fire (novel), Fredrick McKissack, God Bless the Child (picture book), Goin' Someplace Special, Greg Neri, Half a Moon and One Whole Star, Henrietta M. Smith, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ..., Ilyasah Shabazz, In Plain Sight (book), Jacqueline Woodson, James Berry (poet), James Haskins, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Janet McDonald, Janice May Udry, Jason Reynolds, Javaka Steptoe, Jerome Lagarrigue, Jerry Pinkney, Jewell Parker Rhodes, John Lewis (civil rights leader), John Nagenda, John Steptoe, Joyce Carol Thomas, Julius Lester, June Jordan, Kadir Nelson, Karan English, Keeping the Night Watch, Kristin Hunter, Kwame Alexander, Last Stop on Market Street, Leo and Diane Dillon, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Louise Crane, Lucille Clifton, March (comics), Mari Evans, Marilyn Nelson, Martha Southgate, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, Mildred D. Taylor, Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, Miracle's Boys (novel), Mirandy and Brother Wind, Monster (Myers novel), Motown and Didi, Never Forgotten, Nikki Grimes, One Crazy Summer (novel), Ossie Davis, Pat Cummings (illustrator), Patricia McKissack, Pearl Bailey, Peter Magubane, Randy DuBurke, Reynold Ruffins, Rita Williams-Garcia, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Rosa (children's book), Sharon Draper, Sharon G. Flake, Shelia P. Moses, Shirley Chisholm, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Sidney Poitier, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, Synthia Saint James, The Battle of Jericho (novel), The Crossover, The First Part Last, The Friendship, The Hate U Give, The Land (novel), The Moon Over Star, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, The Road to Memphis, The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, Tom Feelings, Toni Morrison, Twelve Rounds to Glory, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Virginia Hamilton, Walter Dean Myers. Expand index (83 more) »

A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich

A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich is a 1973 young adult novel by Alice Childress.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alexis De Veaux

Alexis De Veaux (born September 24, 1948) is a black, lesbian American writer and illustrator.

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Alice Childress

Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994) was an American playwright, actor, and author, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."Mary Helen Washington,, in Bill Mullen and James Edward Smethurst (eds), Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States, Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, p. 186.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Amos Ferguson

Amos Ferguson (February 28, 1920 – October 19, 2009) was a Bahamian folk artist.

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Andrea Davis Pinkney

Andrea Davis Pinkney is a children's author and Coretta Scott King Award winner who writes about African-American culture.

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Andrew Aydin

Andrew Aydin (born August 25, 1983) is an American politician and award-winning comics writer, known as the Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Georgia congressman John Lewis, and co-author, with Lewis, of Lewis' #1 New York Times bestselling autobiographical graphic novel trilogy March—with Representative John Lewis, which debuted in 2013 by Top Shelf Productions.

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Angela Johnson

Angela Jane Johnson (born Forest City, Iowa) is the first woman sentenced to death by a United States federal jury since the 1950s.

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Angela Johnson (writer)

Angela Johnson (born June 18, 1961) is an American poet and writer of children's books, with over 40 books to her credit since beginning her writing career in 1989.

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Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas (born 1988) is an African-American author who was born, and continues to reside in, Jackson, Mississippi.

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Ashley Bryan

Ashley F. Bryan (born July 13, 1923) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Benny Andrews

Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) was an African-American painter, printmaker, and creator of collages.

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Berry Gordy

Berry Gordy III (known professionally as Berry Gordy Jr., born November 28, 1929) is an American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer and television producer.

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Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues is a 1994 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack.

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Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers

Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers is a 1999 book by Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissack about the involvement of African-Americans in the history of whaling in the United States.

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming is a 2014 adolescent novel told in verse by author Jacqueline Woodson.

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Bryan Collier

Bryan Collier (born 1967) is an American writer and illustrator known best for illustrating children's books.

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Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy is a children's novel written by Christopher Paul Curtis, published in 1999.

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Candy Dawson Boyd

Candy Dawson Boyd (born August 8, 1946) is an American writer, activist, and educator.

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Carol Fenner

Carol Elizabeth Fenner (1929–2002) was an American children's writer.

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Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford is an African-American author and critic, now living in North Carolina, United States.

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Carole Byard

Carole Marie Byard (July 22, 1941 – January 11, 2017) was an American visual artist, illustrator, and photographer.

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Charlemae Hill Rollins

Charlemae Hill Rollins (June 20, 1897 – February 3, 1979) was a pioneering librarian, author and storyteller in the area of African-American literature.

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Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir

Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir is a 1979 book about three women's remembrances of their childhoods from the late 19th century through the 20th century.

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Christian Robinson

Christian Robinson is an American illustrator of children's books and an animator.

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Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters is a 1994 Children's book by Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissack.

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Christopher Myers

Christopher Dean "Chris" Myers is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953)Judy Levin, Allison Stark Draper, Christopher Paul Curtis (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2005),, p. 84.

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Copper Sun

Copper Sun is a 2006 young adult novel by Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon Draper.

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Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Daniel Minter

Daniel Minter (born 1963) is an African-American artist who works in paint and sculpture.

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Days Of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States

Days Of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States is a 2002 book by Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack which sets out the history of Abolitionism in the United States.

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Deborah Wiles

Deborah Wiles (born May 5, 1953, Mobile, Alabama, United States) is an award-winning children's book author.

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E. B. Lewis (illustrator)

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Ekua Holmes

Ekua Holmes (born in 1955) is a native of Roxbury, MA and a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt).

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Elijah of Buxton

Elijah of Buxton is an award winning children's novel written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published in 2007.

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Eloise Greenfield

Eloise Greenfield (born May 17, 1929) is an American children's book and biography author and poet famous for her descriptive, rhythmic style and positive portrayal of the African-American experience.

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Elton Fax

Elton Clay Fax (October 9, 1909 – May 13, 1993) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, and author.

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Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930, in Harlem, New York City) is an artist, best known for her narrative quilts.

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Fallen Angels (Myers novel)

Fallen Angels is a 1988 young-adult novel written by Walter Dean Myers, about the Vietnam War.

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Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff

Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff is a 1975 novel by Walter Dean Myers.

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Forged by Fire (novel)

Forged by Fire is a realistic fiction novel written by Sharon M. Draper.

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Fredrick McKissack

Fredrick Lemuel "Fred" McKissack, Sr. (August 12, 1939 – April 28, 2013) was an African-American writer, best known for collaboration with his wife, Patricia C. McKissack on more than 100 children's books about the history of African Americans.

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God Bless the Child (picture book)

God Bless the Child is a 2003 picture book by Jerry Pinkney with the words and music of Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. It is about an African-American family moving from the rural Deep South to urban Chicago during the Great Migration.

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Goin' Someplace Special

Goin' Someplace Special is a 2001 children's book by Pat McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

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Greg Neri

Greg Neri is an American author who has the pen name G. Neri, and is known for his work in young-adult fiction.

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Half a Moon and One Whole Star

Half a Moon and One Whole Star is a 1986 book by Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrator Jerry Pinkney about a girl, Susan, who falls asleep in her bed, while the world continues outside.

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Henrietta M. Smith

Henrietta M. Smith (born 1922), edited the Coretta Scott King Award Book: From Vision to Reality (Chicago: American Library Association, 1994) and The Coretta Scott King Award Book: 1970-1999 sponsored by the American Library Association.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou.

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Ilyasah Shabazz

Ilyasah Shabazz (born July 22, 1962) is the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz.

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In Plain Sight (book)

In Plain Sight is a 2016 book by Richard Jackson and illustrator Jerry Pinkney.

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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents.

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James Berry (poet)

James Berry, OBE, Hon FRSL (28 September 1924 – 20 June 2017), was a black Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s.

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James Haskins

James Haskins (September 19, 1941 – July 6, 2005) was a prolific and award-winning author with more than one hundred books for both adults and children.

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Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Jan Spivey Gilchrist is an author, illustrator and fine artist from Chicago, Illinois.

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Janet McDonald

Janet McDonald (August 10, 1953 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer of young adult novels as well as the author of Project Girl, a memoir about her early life in the Brooklyn projects and struggle to achieve an Ivy League education.

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Janice May Udry

Janice May Udry (born 1928) is an American author.

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Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds (born December 6, 1983) is an American author.

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Javaka Steptoe

Javaka Steptoe is an author and illustrator.

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Jerome Lagarrigue

Jérôme Lagarrigue (born August 18, 1973) is a French painter living in New York city.

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Jerry Pinkney

Jerry Pinkney (born December 22, 1939) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jewell Parker Rhodes (born 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American bestselling novelist and educator.

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John Lewis (civil rights leader)

John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader.

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John Nagenda

John Nagenda (born 25 April 1938, in Gahim, Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda and Burundi)) is a former cricketer who played one One Day International in the 1975 World Cup for East Africa.

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John Steptoe

John Steptoe (September 14, 1950 – August 28, 1989) was an author and illustrator for children’s books dealing with aspects of the African-American experience.

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Joyce Carol Thomas

Joyce Carol Thomas (May 25, 1938 – August 13, 2016) was an African-American poet, playwright, motivational speaker, and author of more than 30 children's books.

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Julius Lester

Julius Bernard Lester (January 27, 1939 – January 18, 2018) was an American writer of books for children and adults and an academic who taught for 32 years (1971–2003) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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June Jordan

June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean-American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist.

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Kadir Nelson

Kadir Nelson (born May 15, 1974) is an African-American artist, illustrator and author.

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Karan English

Karan English (born March 23, 1949) served in the U.S. House of Representatives of the 103rd United States Congress from 1993 to 1995.

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Keeping the Night Watch

Keeping the Night Watch is a children's poetry book written by Hope Anita Smith and illustrated by E. B. Lewis.

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Kristin Hunter

Kristin Elaine Hunter (September 12, 1931 – November 14, 2008) was an African-American writer from Pennsylvania.

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Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander is an American writer of poetry and children's fiction.

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Last Stop on Market Street

Last Stop on Market Street is a 2015 children's book written by American author Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson, which won the 2016 Newbery Medal, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, and a Caldecott Honor.

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Leo and Diane Dillon

Leo Dillon (March 2, 1933 – May 26, 2012) and Diane Dillon (née Sorber; born March 13, 1933) were American illustrators of children's books and adult paperback book and magazine covers.

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Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Let The Circle Be Unbroken is the 1981 sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976), written by Mildred D. Taylor.

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Louise Crane

Louise Crane (November 11, 1913 – October 20, 1997), a prominent American philanthropist.

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Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 in Depew, New York – February 13, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York.

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March (comics)

The March trilogy is a black and white graphic novel trilogy about the Civil Rights Movement, told through the perspective of civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis.

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Mari Evans

Mari Evans (July 16, 1919 – March 10, 2017) was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist associated with the Black Arts Movement.

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Marilyn Nelson

Marilyn Nelson (born April 26, 1946) is an American poet, translator, and children's book author.

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Martha Southgate

Martha Southgate (born December 12, 1960) is an African-American novelist and essayist best known for her novel Third Girl from the Left.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

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Mildred D. Taylor

Mildred DeLois Taylor (born September 13, 1943) is an African-American writer known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South.

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Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman is a 1996 Children's picture book by Alan Schroeder and illustrator Jerry Pinkney.

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Miracle's Boys (novel)

Miracle’s Boys is a young adult novel by Jacqueline Woodson featuring three young brothers of African-American and Puerto Rican descent growing up without parents in Harlem.

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Mirandy and Brother Wind

Mirandy and Brother Wind is a 1988 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

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Monster (Myers novel)

Monster is a young adult drama novel by American author Walter Dean Myers and was published by Harpercollins in 1999.

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Motown and Didi

Motown and Didi is a realistic fiction novel by Walter Dean Myers.

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Never Forgotten

Never Forgotten is a 2011 picture book by Pat McKissack about a blacksmith father in West Africa who has Musafa, his son, kidnapped by slavers and with the assistance of the four elements discovers that Musafa is working in Charleston as a blacksmith's apprentice.

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Nikki Grimes

Nikki Grimes (born October 20, 1950) is an American author of books written for children and young adults, as well as a poet and journalist.

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One Crazy Summer (novel)

One Crazy Summer is a historical fiction novel by American author Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad in 2010.

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Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist.

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Pat Cummings (illustrator)

Patricia Marie "Pat" Cummings (born November 9, 1950 in Chicago) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Patricia McKissack

Patricia L'Ann Carwell "Pat" McKissack (August 9, 1944 – April 7, 2017) was an American children's writer.

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Pearl Bailey

Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer.

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Peter Magubane

Peter Magubane (born) is a South African photographer.

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Randy DuBurke

Randy DuBurke (born 1962) is an American artist best known as the author and illustrator of the Steptoe Award winning book The Moon Ring (2003) and as the illustrator of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty (2010).

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Reynold Ruffins

Reynold Ruffins (born 1930) is an African American painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.

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Rita Williams-Garcia

Rita Williams-Garcia (born 1957) is an American writer of young-adult novels.

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1976 novel by Mildred D. Taylor, sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees.

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Rosa (children's book)

Rosa is a children's picture book written by poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier.

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Sharon Draper

Sharon Mills Draper (born August 21, 1948) is an American children's writer and a professional educator, the 1997 National Teacher of the Year.

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Sharon G. Flake

Sharon G. Flake (born December 29, 1955) is an American writer of young adult literature.

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Shelia P. Moses

Shelia P. Moses, is an African-American writer whose subjects include comedian Dick Gregory and The Legend of Buddy Bush.

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Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Anita Chisholm (née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author.

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Shirley Graham Du Bois

Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes.

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Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.

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Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush is a 1982 children's novel by Virginia Hamilton and is about a girl, Tree, who lives with her mother and older brother, and her involvement with a ghost.

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Synthia Saint James

Synthia Saint James (born February 11, 1949) is an American visual artist, author, keynote speaker, and educator who is best known for the original cover art of the hardcover edition of Terry McMillan's book Waiting to Exhale and for designing the first Kwanzaa stamp for the United States Postal Service, which was first issued in 1997.

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The Battle of Jericho (novel)

The Battle of Jericho by Sharon M. Draper is a young adult novel.

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The Crossover

The Crossover is a 2014 children's book by American author Kwame Alexander and the winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award Honor.

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The First Part Last

The First Part Last is a young adult novel by Angela Johnson that deals with the subject of teen pregnancy.

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The Friendship

The Friendship is an award-winning short children's novel by Mildred Taylor.

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The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give is an award-winning young adult novel by Angie Thomas, that follows a protagonist drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of her friend.

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The Land (novel)

The Land is a novel written by Mildred D. Taylor, published in 2001.

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The Moon Over Star

The Moon Over Star is a 2008 picture book by Dianna Hutts Aston and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes.

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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales is a 1985 collection of twenty four folktales retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

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The People Could Fly: The Picture Book

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book is a 2004 picture book by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

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The Road to Memphis

The Road To Memphis is a documentary directed by Richard Pearce.

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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit is a 1987 Children's book by Julius Lester and illustrator Jerry Pinkney.

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The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South

The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South is a 1989 children's picture book by Robert D. San Souci and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 (1995) is a historical-fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis.

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Tom Feelings

Tom Feelings (May 19, 1933 – August 25, 2003) was a cartoonist, children's book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist.

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

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Twelve Rounds to Glory

Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali is a 2007 illustrated biography of Muhammad Ali for children written by Charles R. Smith Jr.

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Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom

Underground is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shane W. Evans.

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Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is an American writer known for her fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults.

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Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an African-American children's books author.

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Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature.

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