Coretta Scott King Award

Lewis has illustrated over seventy children’s books over the decades with brilliant artworks and watercolor images. Some of his great works are; Coming home soon wrote by Jacqueline Woodson, a story about a young girl and her grandmother that are separated from mama when she moves north to work during WWII (Tyson, 2009), My Best friend by Mary Ann Rodman which is a story about a young girl who tries hard to make friends with an older girl at the swimming pool (Tyson, 2009), and The Bat Boy and His Violin by Gavin Curtis this is a story about a boy that loves to play violin but his father is the coach of an all negro baseball team and he is forced to play on it (goodreads, 2007). Many of the books that Lewis illustrated for went on the win awards as…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., also known as King, Michael Luther, Jr. was born January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia and assassinated April 4th, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee (Luther King Jr., 2017). Martin Luther King Jr. was originally names Michael then changed his name to Martin. Martin Luther King Jr. was the son of Martin Luther King, who was a minister, and Alberta Christine King- Williams, who was a teacher. Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott, who was a concert singer, June 18th,…

Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Freedom Marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to secure voting rights for African Americans. Having come out in 2014, Although any historical film is an interpretation of history, this movie accurately depicted what African Americans went through. The first scene introduces Annie Lee Cooper who was denied the right to vote after not being able to name the 67 county judges in Alabama. This was one of the many real…

though Maya Always proceeded and music she started to look forward to her writing a little more. She moved to Harlem and joined the Harlem writing skills. Angelou received Grammys for three of her spoken word albums. President bills Clintons inauguration in 1993, “ON THE PULSE OF MORNING’’ Maya was great friends with Malcom x while living in Ghana. She moved back to the U.S in 1959 to help him build his civil rights organization. But he was assassinated shortly after their return Grieving she…

The Breathtaking Brown Girl Dreaming Initially when I began Jacqueline Woodson 's Brown Girl Dreaming I wasn 't convinced her choice of writing style was for me. I didn 't fully grasp how an autobiography could be written in verse and still flow like a narrative. However, Woodson laid to rest any concerns or doubts I may have had prior to starting this delightful novel. I have never been one to avidly seek out memoirs; I get bored with them after only just beginning them. Brown Girl Dreaming is…

programs to address cultural diversity, one of these programs is Gatorship. Gatorship program has been around the campus for over 15 years allowing students the opportunity to join this retreat type program. This program is setup for up to 60 people and student staff teams. These teams interact through activities to learn more about living in a multicultural society. These teams eventually will serve as peer leaders in educating about being multicultural (UF, 2016). This program is sponsored by…

Biographical Criticism, shows how, a reader, relates his or her possible favorite author’s past, in order to relate it on how that author writes their story, and how the simplest pieces of texts relates towards their past. Walter Dean Myers was a famous author in his times, some of his well known books/poems included, Monsters, Fallen Angels, Slam!, Hoops, Bad Boy: A memoir, Harlem, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices and etc. As he was young his mother had died when he was the age of 2, which…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous and respectable man when he was alive. He was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He gave many sermons and speeches in his day. On one very important day, 4 February 1968, he gave a sermon called “The Drum Major Instinct;” it was based off an adaptation of J. Wallace Hamilton’s “Drum-Major Instinct.” In King’s sermon, he explains what the drum major instinct is and why you need to be cautious with it. King believed that you shouldn’t use…

Martin Luther King Jr. Essay "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." — Martin Luther King, Jr. / "I Have A Dream" speech, August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia and he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee the day after his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” speech and was shot on his balcony. His parents…

participated in organizations such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). However, these affiliations often masked the work that Black women did as individuals. Annie Pearl Avery, a member of SNCC, often led solitary and spur of the moment demonstrations. In “There Are No Cowards in My Family” Avery discusses how she choose to led a solitary march through Alabama after SNCC’s failure to come up with a…