Thirteenth Annual Coretta Scott King Award Presentation
Honoring Mildred Taylor for Let the Circle Be Unbroken Dial Press and John Steptoe for Mother Crocodile Delacorte Press
Coretta Scott King Award Breakfast 7:30-9:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 13, 1982 Palmaire Ballroom - Holiday Inn-University City Philadelphia, PA
American Library Association 101st Annual Conference The Coretta Scott King Award-Fact Sheet History: The award was established at the American Library Association Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1969. The founders were Mrs. Mable McKissick, Mr. John Carroll and Mrs. Glyndon Flynt Greer. During the first year, three other librarians joined the founders. Mrs. Harriett B. Brown of New York City, Mrs. Beatrice James, President of New Jersey Library Association, and Mr. Roger McDonough, New Jersey State Librarian, helped in making the first award presentation and book exhibit a tremendous success. The award, which is given to an author and an illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution, is designed to commemorate the life and works of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and deter mination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood. Presentation: The award is presented at the annual convention of the American Library Asso ciation. The award consists of a plaque, an honorarium, and a set of Encyclopedia Britannica or World Book Encyclopedias. Selection Criteria: a) The awards are to be given to one Black e) The book must be published in the author and one Black illustrator not calendar year preceding the year of necessarily of the same book. !Joint Award presentation. authors and joint illustrators are eligible.) f) If in the opinion of the Awards b) The book should be appealing to children Committee there is no title which meets and/or young adults. the criteria for the given year in either c) The book can be either fiction or categories no award need be given non-fiction. that year. d) The book must portray people, places, g) Books in either category deemed things, and events in a manner sensitive worthy of Honorable Mention may also to the true worth and value of all beings. be named. Selection of Awards Committee: The Awards Committee, to be composed of seven librarians, will be appointed by the Chair of the Coretta Scott King Task Force with recommendations from Task Force members. Committee members must be members of the American Library Association and of the Social Responsibilities Round Table. CSK Award Winners 1977-James Haskins, The Story of Stevie Wonder 1970-Lillie Patterson, (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: 1978-Eloise Greenfield & Carole Byard, Man of Peace (Garrard) Africa Dream 1971-Charlemae Rollins, (A John Day Book-by Crowell) Black Troubador; Langston Hughes (Rand) 1979-Ossie Davis, Escape To Freedom (Viking) 1972-Elton C. Fax, 17 Black Artists (Dodd) Tom Feelings: Illustrator 1973-Alfred Duckett, Something On My Mind (Dial) I Never Had It Made: The Auto 1980-Walter Dean Myers, biography of Jackie Robinson (Putnam) Young Land Lords (Viking) 1974-Sharon Bell Mathis & George Ford, Carole Byard: Illustrator- Cornrows Ray Charles (Crowell) (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.) 1975-Dorothy Robinson & Herbert Temple, 1981-Sidney Poitier, The Legend of Africania (Johnson) This Life (Alfred Knopf, Inc.) 1976-Pearl Bailey, Duey's Tale (Harcourt) Ashley Bryan: Illustrator- Beat the Story Drum, Pum Pum (Atheneum) Program Master of Ceremonies ...... E. J. Josey Welcome ...... Effie Lee Morris Greetings ...... Robert Wedgeworth
Breakfast
Award Presentations And Acceptance-1982 Barbara T. Rollock, CSK Awards Committee Basil Phillips to Mildred Taylor (Author) Raymond Gregory to John Steptoe (Illustrator)
Honorable Mention Books Authors Alice Childress. Rainbow Jordon (Coward) Kristin Hunter. Lou in the Limelight (Scribner) Mary E. Mebane. Mary (Viking)
Illustrator Tom Feelings. Daydreamers by Eloise Greenfield (Dial)
Award Sponsors Coca-Cola Company- Atlanta, GA Encyclopedia Britannica-Chicago, IL Gregory's Machine and Tool Service-Chicago, IL World Book-Childcraft International, Inc.-Chicago, IL SRRT-Coretta Scott King Award Task Force
Effie Lee Morris, chair ...... San Francisco, CA Ethel N. Ambrose ...... Little Rock, AR Mary Biblo ...... Chicago, IL Harriett B. Brown ...... New York, NY John W. Cunningham ...... Philadelphia, PA Marva L. Deloache ...... Hampton, VA E. J. Josey ...... Albany, NY Doreitha R. Madden ...... Trenton, NJ Jane Hale Morgan ...... Detroit, MI Margaret E. Poarch ...... Geneseo, NY Barbara T. Rollock ...... New York, NY David L. Searcy ...... Atlanta, GA Lucille C. Thomas ...... Brooklyn, NY Barbara J. Pruett, chair, SRRT Action Council ...... Washington, DC Jean E. Coleman, ALA/SRRT staff liaison ...... Chicago, IL Awards Committee Barbara T. Rollock, chair ...... New York, NY Effie Lee Morris, co-chair ...... San Francisco, CA Ethel N. Ambrose ...... Little Rock, AR Margaret E. Poarch ...... Geneseo, NY Henrietta M. Smith ...... Boca Raton, FL Archives and History Committee Harriett B. Brown, co-chair ...... New York, NY Beatrice James, co-chair ...... Bergenfield, NJ Howard G. Ball ...... Normal, AL Mabel R. McKissick ...... New London, CT Susie Flynt Shumey ...... Huntsville, AL Founders Gly ndon Flynt Greer, Founder Jeanne Hudson Augusta Baker Beatrice James Harriett B. Brown Virginia Lacy Jones John F. Carroll E. J . Josey Minnie Clayton Roger McDonough Ella G. Yates-Edwards Mable R. McKissick Ruth D. Hayford Basil Phillips Ellyn A. Hill Susie Flynt Shumey