Coretta Scott King Award
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The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the American Library Association. Named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., this award recognizes outstanding African American authors and illustrators. The book must be about the African American experience, and be written for a youth audience (high school or below).
[edit] Author Awards
- 2007: Sharon Draper, Copper Sun, ISBN 0-689-82181-6
- 2006: Julius Lester, Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, ISBN 0-786-80490-4
- 2005: Toni Morrison, Remember: The Journey to School Integration, ISBN 0-618-45967-7
- 2004: Angela Johnson, The First Part Last, ISBN 0-689-84922-2
- 2003: Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade, ISBN 0-8037-2569-8
- 2002: Mildred Taylor, The Land, ISBN 0-8037-1950-7
- 2001: Jacqueline Woodson, Miracle's Boys, ISBN 0-399-23113-7
- 2000: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy, ISBN 0-03-065484-X
- 1999: Angela Johnson, Heaven, ISBN 0-689-82290-1
- 1998: Sharon Draper, Forged By Fire, ISBN 0-689-81851-3
- 1997: Walter Dean Myers, Slam, ISBN 0-590-48667-5
- 1996: Virginia Hamilton, Her Stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales, ISBN 0-590-56603-2
- 1995: Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack, Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, ISBN 0-590-43027-0
- 1994: Angela Johnson Toning the Sweep, ISBN 1-86039-100-1
- 1993: Patricia C. McKissack, Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, ISBN 0-679-88335-5
- 1992: Walter Dean Myers, Now is Your Time: the African American Struggle for Freedom, ISBN 0-06-024371-6
- 1991: Mildred Taylor, The Road to Memphis, ISBN 0-8037-0340-6
- 1990: Patricia C. and Fred L. McKissack, A Long Hard Journey: the Story of the Pullman Porter, ISBN 0-8027-6885-7
- 1989: Walter Dean Myers, Fallen Angels, ISBN 0-590-40943-3
- 1988: Mildred Taylor, The Friendship, ISBN 0-8037-0417-8
- 1987: Mildred Pitts Walter, Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, ISBN 0-688-06645-3
- 1986: Virginia Hamilton, The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, ISBN 0-375-80471-4
- 1985: Walter Dean Myers, Motown and Didi: a love story, ISBN 0-670-49062-8
- 1984: Lucille Clifton, Everett Anderson’s Good-bye, ISBN 0-03-063518-7
- 1983: Virginia Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, ISBN 0-399-20894-1
- 1982: Mildred Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, ISBN 0-8037-4748-9
- 1981: Sidney Poitier, This Life, ISBN 0-394-50549-2
- 1980: Walter Dean Myers, The Young Landlords, ISBN 0-670-79454-6
- 1979: Ossie Davis, Escape to Freedom, ISBN 0-670-29775-5
- 1978: Carol Bayard (illustrator), Africa Dream, ISBN 0-690-04776-2
- 1977: James Haskins, The Story of Stevie Wonder, ISBN 0-688-51740-4
- 1976: Pearl Bailey, Duey's Tale, ISBN 0-15-126576-3
- 1975: Dorothy Robinson, The Legend of Africania, ISBN 0-87485-037-1
- 1974: Sharon Bell Mathis, Ray Charles, ISBN 0-690-67066-4
- 1973: Alfred Duckett, I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett, ISBN 0-399-11010-0
- 1972: Eton C. Fax, 17 Black Artists, ISBN 0-396-06391-8
- 1971: Charlemae Rollins, Black Troubador: Langston Hughes, OCLC #120580
- 1970: Lillie Patterson, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace, ISBN 0-8116-4555-X
