1979-1970 Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books

1979

• Escape to Freedom by Ossie Davis**
• Something on My Mind by Nikki Grimes**
• Benjamin Banneker by Lillie Patterson
• I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf by Jeanne W. Peterson
• Justice and Her Brothers by Virginia Hamilton
• Skates of Uncle Richard by Carol Fenner

1978

• Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Carole Bayard**
• The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folk Tales and How they Came to Be by Williams J. Faulkner
• Marvin and Tige by Frankcina Glass
• Mary McCleod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield
• Barbara Jordan by James Haskins
• Coretta Scott King by Lillie Patterson
• Portia: the Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington by Ruth Ann Stewart

1977

• The Story of Stevie Wonder by James Haskins**

1976

• Duey's Tale by Pearl Bailey**

1975

• The Legend of Africana by Dorothy Robinson**

1974

• Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis and illustrated by George Ford**

1973

• I Never Had It Made: the Autobiography of Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett**

1972

• 17 Black Artists by Elton C. Fax**

1971

• Black Troubador: Langston Hughes by Charlemae Rollins**

1970

• Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace by Lillie Patterson**

** award winner