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1989
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1989 Author Award Winner
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Walter Dean Myers, author of Fallen Angels (Scholastic) |
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1989 Illustrator Award Winner
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Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Mirandy and Brother Wind, written by Patricia McKissack (Knopf) |
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1989 Author Honor Titles
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James Berry, author of A Thief in the Village and Other Stories (Orchard) |
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Virginia Hamilton, author of Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Knopf) |
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1989 Illustrator Honor Titles
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Pat Cummings, illustrator of Storm in the Night, written by Mary Stolz (Harper) |
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Amos Ferguson, illustrator of Under the Sunday Tree, written by Eloise Greenfield (Harper) |
1988
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1988 Author Award Winner
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Mildred D. Taylor, author of The Friendship (Dial) |
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1988 Illustrator Award Winner
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John Steptoe, illustrator of Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Lothrop) |
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1988 Author Honor Titles
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Alexis De Veaux, author of An Enchanted Hair Tale (Harper) |
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Julius Lester, author of The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Dial) |
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1988 Illustrator Honor Titles
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Ashley Bryan, illustrator of What a Morning! The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals, selected by John Langstaff (Macmillan) |
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JoeSam, illustrator of The Invisible Hunters: A Legend from the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, compiled by Harriet Rohmer, et al (Children’s Press) |
1987
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1987 Author Award Winner
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Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, illustrated by Catherine Stock (Lothrop) |
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1987 Illustrator Award Winner
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Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Half a Moon and One Whole Star, written by Crescent Dragonwagon (Macmillan) |
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1987 Author Honor Titles
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Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales (Atheneum) |
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Joyce Hansen, author of Which Way Freedom (Walker) |
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1987 Illustrator Honor Titles
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Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator of Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales (Atheneum) |
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Pat Cummings, author and illustrator of C.L.O.U.D.S. (Lothrop) |
1986
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1986 Author Award Winner
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Virginia Hamilton, author of The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf) |
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1986 Illustrator Award Winner
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Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of The Patchwork Quilt, written by Valerie Flournoy (Dial) |
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1986 Author Honor Titles
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Virginia Hamilton, author of Junius Over Far (Harper) |
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Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Trouble’s Child (Lothrop) |
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1986 Illustrator Honor Title
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Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, written by Virginia Hamilton (Knopf) |
1985
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1985 Author Award Winner
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Walter Dean Myers, author of Motown and Didi (Viking) |
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1985 Author Honor Titles
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Candy Dawson Boyd, author of Circle of Gold (Apple/Scholastic) |
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Virginia Hamilton, author of A Little Love (Philomel) |
1984
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1984 Author Award Winner
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Lucille Clifton, author of Everett Anderson’s Goodbye, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi (Holt) |
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1984 Illustrator Award Winner
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Pat Cummings, illustrator of My Mama Needs Me, written by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop) |
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1984 Author Honor Titles
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Virginia Hamilton, author of The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (Harper) |
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James Haskins, author of Lena Horne (Coward-McCann) |
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Joyce Carol Thomas, author of Bright Shadow (Avon) |
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Mildred Pitts Walter, author of Because We Are (Lothrop) |
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1984 Special Citation
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled by Coretta Scott King (Newmarket Press) |
1983
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1983 Author Award Winner
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Virginia Hamilton, author of Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Amistad) |
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1983 Illustrator Award Winner
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Peter Magubane, photographer and author of Black Child (Knopf) |
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1983 Author Honor Title
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Julius Lester, author of This Strange New Feeling (Dial) |
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1983 Illustrator Honor Titles
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John Steptoe, illustrator of All the Colors of the Race, written by Arnold Adoff (Lothrop) |
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Ashley Bryan, illustrator of I’m Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals (Atheneum) |
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Pat Cummings, illustrator of Just Us Women, written by Jeanette Caines (Harper) |
1982
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1982 Author Award Winner
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Mildred D. Taylor, author of Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Dial) |
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1982 Illustrator Award Winner
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John Steptoe, illustrator of Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Sengal, written by Rosa Guy (Delacorte) |
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1982 Author Honor Titles
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Alice Childress, author of Rainbow Jordan (Coward-McCann) |
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Kristin Hunter, author of Lou in the Limelight (Scribner) |
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Mary E. Mebane, author of Mary: An Autobiography (Viking) |
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1982 Illustrator Honor Title
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Tom Feelings, illustrator of Daydreamers, written by Eloise Greenfield (Dial) |
1981
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1981 Author Award Winner
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Sidney Poitier, author of This Life (Knopf) |
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1981 Illustrator Award Winner
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Ashley Bryan, illustrator of Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (Atheneum) |
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1981 Author Honor Title
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Alexis De Veaux, author of Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday (Harper) |
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1981 Illustrator Honor Titles
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Carole Byard, illustrator of Grandmama’s Joy, written by Eloise Greenfield (Collins) |
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Jerry Pinkney, illustrator of Count on Your Fingers African Style, written by Claudia Zaslavsky (Crowell) |
1980
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1980 Author Award Winner
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Walter Dean Myers, author of The Young Landlords (Viking) |
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1980 Illustrator Award Winner
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Carole Byard, illustrator of Cornrows, written by Camille Yarbrough (Coward-McCann) |
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1980 Author Honor Titles
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Berry Gordy, author of Movin’ Up (Harper) |
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Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little, authors of Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir (Harper) |
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James Haskins, author of Andrew Young: Young Man with a Mission (Lothrop) |
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James Haskins, author of James Van Der Zee: The Picture Takin’ Man (Dodd) |
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Ellease Southerland, author of Let the Lion Eat Straw (Scribner) |
1979
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1979 Author Award Winner
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Ossie Davis, author of Escape to Freedom (Viking) |
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1979 Illustrator Award Winner
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Tom Feelings, illustrator of Something on My Mind, written by Nikki Grimes (Dial) |
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1979 Author Honor Titles
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Lillie Patterson, author of Benjamin Banneker (Abingdon) |
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Jeanne W. Peterson, author of I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf (Harper) |
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Virginia Hamilton, author of Justice and Her Brothers (Greenwillow) |
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Carol Fenner, author of Skates of Uncle Richard (Random) |
1978
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1978 Author Award Winner
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Eloise Greenfield, author of Africa Dream, illustrated by Carole Byard (Crowell) |
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1978 Illustrator Award Winner
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Carole Bayard, illustrator of Africa Dream, written by Eloise Greenfield (Crowell) |
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1978 Author Honor Titles
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William J. Faulkner, author of The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How They Came to Be (Follett) |
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Frankcina Glass, author of Marvin and Tige (St. Martin’s) |
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Eloise Greenfield, author of Mary McCleod Bethune (Crowell) |
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James Haskins, author of Barbara Jordan (Dial) |
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Lillie Patterson, author of Coretta Scott King (Garrard) |
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Ruth Ann Stewart, author of Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington (Doubleday) |
1977
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1977 Author Award Winner
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James Haskins, author of The Story of Stevie Wonder (Lothrop) |
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1977 Author Honor Titles
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Lucille Clifton, author of Everett Anderson's Friend (Holt) |
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Mildred D. Taylor, author of Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry (Dial) |
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Clarance N. Blake and Donald F. Martin, authors of Quick Book on Black America (Houghton) |
1976
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1976 Author Award Winner
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Pearl Bailey, author of Duey’s Tale (Harcourt) |
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1976 Author Honor Titles
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Shirley Graham, author of Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa (Messner) |
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Eloise Greenfield, author of Paul Robeson (Crowell) |
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Walter Dean Myers, author of Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff (Viking) |
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Mildred D. Taylor, author of Song of the Trees (Dial) |
1975
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1975 Author Award Winner
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Dorothy Robinson, author of The Legend of Africana (Johnson Publishing) |
1974
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1974 Author Award WInner
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Sharon Bell Mathis, author of Ray Charles, illustrated by George Ford (Crowell) |
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1974 Illustrator Award Winner (Inaugural)
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George Ford, illustrator of Ray Charles, written by Sharon Bell Mathis (Crowell) |
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1974 Author Honor Titiles
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Alice Childress, author of A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (Coward-McCann) |
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Lucille Clifton, author of Do You Remember? (Dutton) |
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Louise Crane, author of Ms. Africa: Profiles of Modern African Women (Lippincott) |
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Kristin Hunter, author of Guest in the Promised Land (Scribner) |
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John Nagenda, author of Mukasa (MacMillan) |
1973
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1973 Author Award Winner
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Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, authors of I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson (Putnam) |
1972
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1972 Author Award Winner
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Elton C. Fax, author of 17 Black Artists (Dodd) |
1971
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1971 Author Award Winner
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Charlemae Rollins, author of Black Troubador: Langston Hughes (Rand McNally) |
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1971 Author Honor Titles
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Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Random) |
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Shirley Chisholm, author of Unbought and Unbossed (Houghton) |
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Mari Evans, author of I Am a Black Woman (Morrow) |
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Lorenz Graham, author of Every Man Heart Lay Down (Crowell) |
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June Jordan and Terri Bush, authors of The Voice of the Children (Holt) |
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Gladys Groom and Bonnie Grossman, authors of Black Means (Hill & Wang) |
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Margaret W. Peters, author of Ebony Book of Black Achievement (Johnson Publishing) |
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Janice May Udry, author of Mary Jo's Grandmother (Whitman) |
1970
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1970 Author Award Winner
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Lillie Patterson, author of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace (Garrard) |
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