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Coretta Scott King Award Winners

Given to African American authors and illustrator for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions, the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream.

The award is designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.

Congratulations to 2010 winner Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
for Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal

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Year Winner (Title) Winner (Author/Illus.) Available Books
2010 Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal    Vaunda Micheaux Nelson   click here 
2009 We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball    Kadir Nelson   n/a 
2008 Elijah of Buxton    Christopher Paul Curtis   click here 
2007 Copper Sun    Sharon Draper   click here 
2006 Day of Tears: A Novel of Dialogue    Julius Lester   click here 
2005 Remember: The Journey to School Integration    Toni Morrison   click here 
2004 The First Part Last    Angela Johnson   click here 
2003 Bronx Masquerade    Nikki Grimes   click here 
2002 The Land    Mildred D. Taylor   click here 
2001 Miracle's Boys    Jacqueline Woodson   click here 
2000 Bud, Not Buddy    Christopher Paul Curtis   click here 
1999 Heaven    Angela Johnson   click here 
1998 Forged by Fire    Sharon M. Draper   click here 
1997 Slam!    Walter Dean Myers   click here 
1996 Her Stories    Virginia Hamilton   click here 
1995 Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters    Patricia and Frederick McKissack   click here 
1994 Toning the Sweep    Angela Johnson   click here 
1993 The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural    Patricia McKissack   click here 
1992 Now is Your Time: The African American Struggle for Freedom    Walter Dean Myers   click here 
1991 The Road to Memphis    Mildred D. Taylor   click here 
1990 A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter    Patricia and Frederick McKissack   click here 
1989 Fallen Angels    Walter Dean Myers   click here 
1988 The Friendship    Mildred D. Taylor   click here 
1987 Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World    Mildred Pitts Walter   n/a 
1986 The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales    Virginia Hamilton   click here 
1985 Motown and Didi    Walter Dean Myers   click here 
1984 Everett Anderson's Goodbye    Lucille Clifton   n/a 
1983 Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush    Virginia Hamilton   click here 
1982 Let the Circle Be Unbroken    Mildred D. Taylor   click here 
1981 This Life    Sidney Poitier   click here 
1980 The Young Landlords    Walter Dean Myers   click here 
1979 Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass    Ossie Davis   n/a 
1978 Africa Dream    Eloise Greenfield   n/a 
1977 The Story of Stevie Wonder    James Haskins   n/a 
1976 Duey's Tale    Pearl Bailey   n/a 
1975 The Legend of Africania    Dorothy Robinson   n/a 
1974 Ray Charles    Sharon Bell Mathis   n/a 
1973 I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson    Jackie Robinson   n/a 
1972 Seventeen Black Artists    Elton C. Fax   n/a 
1971 Black Troubador: Langston Hughes    Charlemae H. Rollins   n/a 
1970 Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace    Lillie Patterson   n/a