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The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the Coretta Scott King Book Award Round Table, part of the American Library Association (ALA). Named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr., this award recognizes outstanding books for young adults and children by African Americans that reflect the African American experience.
The following authors and illustrators have all received a Coretta Scott King Award (including the John Steptoe Award for New Talent) from the American Library Association. For the individual books that have received a Coretta Scott King Award, see Category: Coretta Scott King Award–winning works .
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How Did Coretta Scott King Die? Sadly, Coretta Scott King suffered a stroke and heart attack in August of 2005. Five months later, while seeking ovarian cancer treatment in Rosarito, Mexico ...
Pages in category "Coretta Scott King Award–winning works" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize is awarded by the King Center. [7]A non-exhaustive list of recipients includes: Cesar Chavez (1973); Stanley Levison and Kenneth Kaunda (1978); Rosa Parks (1980); Martin Luther King Sr. and Richard Attenborough (1983); Corazon Aquino (1987); Mikhail Gorbachev (1991); and, on April 4, 2018 – the 50th anniversary of King's assassination – Ben ...
Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss from his wife, Coretta Scott King, after leaving court in Montgomery, AL, on March 22, 1956. Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968.
In 1986, Coretta Scott King prepared a 10-page letter urging Congress to reject Jeff Sessions' nomination to be a federal judge. The emotional words from the widow of civil rights leader Dr ...