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Coretta Scott King Award

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 of a pluralistic society.

Coretta Scott King Award Website

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Twenty-four seconds from now... : a love story

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My daddy is a cowboy

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Coretta : the autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King
Everywhere beauty is Harlem : the vision of photographer Roy DeCarava
Go forth and tell : the life of Augusta Baker, librarian and master storyteller

Coretta Scott King Award 2024

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Nigeria Jones

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An American story

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Coretta Scott King Award 2023

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Freewater

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Standing in the need of prayer : a modern retelling of the classic spiritual

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Coretta Scott King Award 2022

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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Coretta Scott King Award 2021

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Before the ever after

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul

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Coretta Scott King Award 2020

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New Kid

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The undefeated

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Coretta Scott King Award 2019

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A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919

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The stuff of stars

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Coretta Scott King Award 2018

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Piecing me together

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Out of wonder: poems celebrating poets

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Coretta Scott King Award 2017

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March. Book three

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Radiant child : the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Coretta Scott King Award 2016

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Gone crazy in Alabama

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Trombone Shorty

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Coretta Scott King Award 2015

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Brown girl dreaming

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Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the firebird

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Coretta Scott King Award 2014

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P.S. Be eleven

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Knock knock : my dad's dream for me

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Nelson Mandela

Coretta Scott King Award 2013

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Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America

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I, too, am America

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Coretta Scott King Award 2012

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Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans

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Underground

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Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans

Coretta Scott King Award 2011

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One crazy summer

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Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave

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Jimi : sounds like a rainbow : a story of the young Jimi Hendrix

Coretta Scott King Award 2010

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Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal

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Mare's war

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My people

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The Negro speaks of rivers

Coretta Scott King Award 2009

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We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball

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The blacker the berry : poems

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Coretta Scott King Award 2008

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Elijah of Buxton

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Let it shine : three favorite spirituals

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Coretta Scott King Award 2007

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Copper sun

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The road to Paris

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Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom

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Coretta Scott King Award 2006

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Day of tears : a novel in dialogue

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Rosa

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Brothers in hope : the story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

Coretta Scott King Award 2005

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Remember : the journey to school integration

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Ellington was not a street

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Coretta Scott King Award 2004

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The first part last

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Beautiful blackbird

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Coretta Scott King Award 2003

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Bronx masquerade

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Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman

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Coretta Scott King Award 2002

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The land

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Goin' someplace special

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Martin's big words : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Coretta Scott King Award 2001

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Miracle's boys

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Let it shine : stories of Black women freedom fighters

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Uptown

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Coretta Scott King Award 2000

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Bud, not Buddy

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Francie
Black hands, white sails: the story of African-American whalers
Monster

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In the time of the drums

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Coretta Scott King Award 1999

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Heaven

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Jazmin’s notebook
Breaking ground, breaking silence : the story of New York's African burial ground
The other side : Shorter poems

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I see the rhythm

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Coretta Scott King Award 1998

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Forged by fire

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Bayard Rustin: behind the scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl

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In daddy's arms I am tall : African Americans celebrating fathers

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Coretta Scott King Award 1997

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Slam!

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Rebels against slavery : American slave revolts

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Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman

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The palm of my heart : poetry by African American children
Running the road to ABC
Neeny coming, Neeny going

Coretta Scott King Award 1996

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Her stories : African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales

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The middle passage : white ships/black cargo

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Coretta Scott King Award 1995

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Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

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The Creation

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Coretta Scott King Award 1994

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Toning the sweep

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Soul looks back in wonder

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Coretta Scott King Award 1993

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The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural

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The origin of life on earth : an African creation myth

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Coretta Scott King Award 1992

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Now is your time! : the African-American struggle for freedom

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Night on Neighborhood Street

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All night, all day : a child's first book of African-American spirituals
Night on Neighborhood Street

Coretta Scott King Award 1991

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The road to Memphis

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Aïda

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Coretta Scott King Award 1990

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A long hard journey : the story of the pullman porter

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Nathaniel talking
The bells of Christmas
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement

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Nathaniel talking

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The talking eggs : a folktale from the American South

Coretta Scott King Award 1989

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Fallen angels

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Mirandy and Brother Wind

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Under the Sunday tree
Storm in the night

Coretta Scott King Award 1988

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The friendship

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An enchanted hair tale
The tales of Uncle Remus. The adventures of Brer Rabbit

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Mufaro's beautiful daughters : an African tale

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What a morning! The Christmas Story in Black spirituals
The invisible hunters : a legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua = Los cazadores invisibles : una leyenda de los indios miskitos de Nicaragua

Coretta Scott King Award 1987

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Justin and the best biscuits in the world

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Lion and the ostrich chicks and other African folk tales
Which way freedom?

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Half a moon and one whole star

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Lion and the ostrich chicks and other African folk tales
C.L.O.U.D.S.

Coretta Scott King Award 1986

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The people could fly : American Black folktales

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Junius over far
Trouble's child

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The patchwork quilt

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The people could fly : American Black folktales

Coretta Scott King Award 1985

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Motown and Didi : a love story

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Coretta Scott King Award 1984

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Everett Anderson's goodbye

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My mama needs me

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The words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Coretta Scott King Award 1983

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Sweet whispers, Brother Rush

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This strange new feeling

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Black child

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All the colors of the race : poems
I'm going to sing: Black American spirituals
Just us women

Coretta Scott King Award 1982

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Let the circle be unbroken

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Rainbow Jordan
Lou in the limelight
Mary: an autobiography

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Mother crocodile = Maman-Caïman

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Daydreamers

Coretta Scott King Award 1981

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This life

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Don't explain: a song of Billie Holiday

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Beat the story-drum, pum-pum

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Grandmama's joy
Count on your fingers African style

Coretta Scott King Award 1980

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The young landlords

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Movin' up
Childtimes : a three-generation memoir
Andrew Young: man with a mission
James Van DerZee: the picture takin' man
Let the lion eat straw

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Cornrows

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Coretta Scott King Award 1979

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Escape to freedom : a play about young Frederick Douglass

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Something on my mind

Coretta Scott King Award 1978

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Africa dream

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The days when the animals talked: Black folk tales and how they came to be
Marvin and Tige
Mary McLeod Bethune
Barbara Jordan
Coretta Scott King
Portia: the life of Portia Washington Pittman, the daughter of Booker T. Washington