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Coretta Scott King Award

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King Medal

The Coretta Scott King Award honors African American authors and illustrators for outstanding contributions to children's and young adult literature that promote understanding and appreciation of the culture and contribution of all people to the realization of the American Dream.


 King Medal


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2005

   
 

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Toni Morrison for Remember: The Journey to School Integration
Kadir Nelson for Ellington was not a Street

2004

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Angela Johnson for The First Part Last
Ashley Bryan for
Beautiful Blackbird

2003



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Nikki Grime for Bronx Masquerade
E. B. Lewis for Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

2002




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Mildred Taylor for The Land
Jerry Pinkney for Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack

2001




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Jacqueline Woodson for Miracle's Boys
Bryan Collier for Uptown

2000




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Christopher Paul Curtis for Bud, Not Buddy
Brian Pinkney for In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson

1999




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Angela Johnson for Heaven
Michele Wood for  i see the rhythm by Toyomi Igus

1998




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Sharon M. Draper for Forged by Fire
Javaka Steptoe for In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall

1997




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Walter Dean Myers for Slam!
Jerry Pinkney Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder

1996




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Virginia Hamilton for Her Stories
Tom Feelings for The Middle Passage: White Ships Black Cargo

1995




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Patricia and Frederick McKissack for Christmas in the Big House,
Christmas in the Quarters

James Ransome for The Creation by James Weldon Johnson

1994




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Angela Johnson for Toning the Sweep
Tom Feelings for Soul Looks Back in Wonder

1993




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Patrica McKissack for The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Kathleen Atkins Wilson for The Origin Of Life on Earth by David A. Anderson

1992




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Walter Dean Myers for Now Is Your Time!  The African-Americian Struggle for Freedom
Faith Ringgold for Tar Beach

1991




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Mildred D. Taylor for The Road To Memphis
Leo and Diane Dillon for Aida by Leontyne Price

1990




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Patricia and Frederick McKissack for A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter
Jan Spivey Gilchrist for Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield

1989




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Walter Dean Myers for Fallen Angels
Jerry Pinkney for Mirandy And Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack

1988




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Mildred D. Taylor for The Friendship
John Steptoe for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

1987




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Mildred Pitts Walter for Justin And The Best Biscuits In The World
Jerry Pinkney for Half A Moon And One Whole Star by Crecent Dragonwagon

1986




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Virgina Hamilton for The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Jerry Pinkney for The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy

1985




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Walter Dean Myers for Motown and Didi
No award given

1984




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Lucille Clifton for Everett Anderson's Goodbye
Pat Cummings for My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter

1983




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Virgina Hamilton for Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Peter Magubane for Black Child

1982




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Mildred D. Taylor for Let the Circle Be Unbroken
John Steptoe for Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale From Senegal
adapted by Rosa Guy

1981




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Sidney Poitier for This Life
Ashley Bryan for Beat The Story-Drum, Pum-Pum

1980




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Walter Dean Myers for The Young Landlords
Carole Byard for Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough

1979




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Ossie Davis for Escape To Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass
Tom Feelings for Something On My Mind by Nikki Grimes

1978




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Eloise Greenfield for Africa Dream
Carole Byard for Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield.

1977




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James Haskins for The Story Of Stevie Wonder
No award given

1976




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Pearl Bailey for Duey's Tale
No award given

1975




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Dorothy Robinson for The Legend Of Africania
No award given

1974




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Sharon Bell Mathis for Ray Charles
George Ford for Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis

1973




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Jackie Robinson for I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

1972




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Elton C. Fax for Seventeen Black Artists

1971




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Charlemae H. Rollins for Black Troubador: Langston Hughes

1970




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Lillie Patterson for Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace