
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott King by recognizing outstanding books by African American authors and illustrators. The award encourages the artistic expression of the African American experience via literature and the graphic arts, including biographical, historical, and social history treatments.
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Freedom River
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2000
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1996
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
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1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
Black Dance in America
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1990
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement
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1989
1988
An Enchanted Hair Tale
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1987
C.L.O.U.D.S.
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1986
Junius over Far
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Trouble's Child
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1985
A Little Love
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1984
Lena Horne
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Bright Shadow
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Because We Are
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1983
All the Colors of the Race
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I'm Going to Sing
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1982
Lou in the Limelight
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Daydreamers
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1981
This Life
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Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum
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Grandmama's Joy
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1980
Movin’ Up
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Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission
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James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man
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Let the Lion Eat the Straw
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1979
Something on My Mind
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Benjamin Banneker
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1978
Marvin and Tige
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Barbara Jordan
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Coretta Scott King
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1977
The Story of Stevie Wonder
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1976
Duey’s Tale
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Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa
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Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
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1975
The Legend of Africania
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1974
A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
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Don't You Remember?
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Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women
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Guests in the Promised Land
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Mukasa
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1973
1972
Seventeen Black Artists
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1971
Black troubadour: Langston Hughes
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Unbought and Unbossed
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I Am a Black Woman
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The Voice of the Children
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Black Means...
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Mary Jo's Grandmother
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1970
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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