Books

Coretta Scott King Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 233 books.


  1. Mary McLeod Bethune (Crowell Biographies)

    by Eloise Greenfield

    Year: 1978
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  2. Marvin and Tige

    by Frankcina Glass

    Year: 1978
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  3. The Days When the Animals Talked

    Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be

    by William J. Faulkner

    Year: 1978
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  4. Africa Dream

    by Eloise Greenfield, Carole Byard

    Year: 1978
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  5. Barbara Jordan: American Hero

    by Mary Beth Rogers

    Year: 1978
    Category: Author Honor
    Finalist
  6. Everett Anderson: Book 4

    Everett Anderson's Friend

    by Lucille Clifton

    Year: 1977
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  7. The Logan Family Saga: Book 2

    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

    by Mildred D. Taylor

    Year: 1977
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  8. The Story of Stevie Wonder

    by James Haskins

    Year: 1977
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  9. The Logans: Book 5

    Song of the Trees

    by Mildred D. Taylor

    Year: 1976
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  10. Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff

    by Walter Dean Myers

    Year: 1976
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  11. Paul Robeson

    The Life and Times of a Free Black Man

    by Eloise Greenfield

    Year: 1976
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  12. Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa

    by Shirley Graham Du Bois

    Year: 1976
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  13. Duey's Tale

    by Pearl Bailey

    Year: 1976
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  14. The Legend of Africania

    by Dorothy W. Robinson

    Year: 1975
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  15. A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich

    by Alice Childress

    Year: 1974
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  16. Mukasa

    by John Nagenda

    Year: 1974
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  17. Guests in the Promised Land

    by Kristin Hunter Lattany

    Year: 1974
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  18. Ms. Africa

    Profiles of Modern African Women

    by Louise Crane

    Year: 1974
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  19. Ray Charles

    by Sharon Bell Mathis, George Ford

    Year: 1974
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  20. I Never Had It Made

    An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

    by Jackie Robinson, Alfred Duckett, Björn Kurtén, Jackie Robinson

    Year: 1973
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  21. 17 Black Artists

    by Elton C. Fax

    Year: 1972
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  22. Mary Jo's Grandmother

    by Janice May Udry

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  23. The Ebony Book of Black Achievement

    by Margaret Peters

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  24. Mary Jo's Grandmother

    by Janice May Udry

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  25. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    by Maya Angelou

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  26. I Am a Black Woman

    by Mari Evans

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  27. Every Man Heart Lay Down

    by Lorenz Graham

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  28. The Voice of the Children

    by June Jordan, Terri Bush

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  29. Black Means

    by Barney Grossman, Gladys Groom

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Honor
  30. Black Troubadour

    Langston Hughes

    by Charlemae Rollins

    Year: 1971
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner
  31. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Man of Peace

    by Lillie Patterson

    Year: 1970
    Category: Author
    Rank: Winner

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