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Melissa Fay Greene
Tags Share The 1992 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Melissa Fay Greene for Praying for Sheetrock. Praying for Sheetrock is set in McIntosh County, an area in the backwoods of Georgia that somehow remained untouched by the nation-wide changes of the civil rights movement a decade before. Greene tells the story of…
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Myles Horton and Herbert and Judith Kohl
Tags Share The 1992 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Myles Horton and Herbert and Judith Kohl for The Long Haul and Andrew Revkin for The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. The Long Haul is the autobiography of Myles Horton, a labor organizer…
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Andrew Revkin
Tags Share The 1992 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Myles Horton and Herbert and Judith Kohl for The Long Haul and Andrew Revkin for The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest. The Burning Season tells the story of Chico Mendes, a labor and…
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Tracy Kidder
Tags Share The 1990 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Tracy Kidder for Among Schoolchildren and Alec Wilkinson for Big Sugar. Among Schoolchildren chronicles a year in the life of a diverse fifth-grade class in Holyoke, an industrial city in southwestern Massachusetts. Kidder presents “a compelling microcosm of what is wrong—and right—with our…
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Alec Wilkinson
Tags Share The 1990 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Tracy Kidder for Among Schoolchildren and Alec Wilkinson for Big Sugar. Big Sugar describes the dangerous work of thousands of West Indian workers in the American sugar industry and the miserable conditions in which they live. A former policeman and musician, Alec Wilkinson…
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Neil Sheehan
Tags Share The 1989 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Neil Sheehan for A Bright Shining Lie and Jonathan Kozol for Rachel and Her Children. A Bright Shining Lie, which also won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989, tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann,…
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Jonathan Kozol
Tags Share The 1989 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Neil Sheehan for A Bright Shining Lie and Jonathan Kozol for Rachel and Her Children. Rachel and Her Children is based on the months Kozal spent among America’s homeless, and describes the desperate and often nightmarish conditions of the nation’s shelters. Jonathan Kozol…
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Pauli Murray
Tags Share Pauli Murray received the 1988 RFK Book Award for Song in a Weary Throat. Song in a Weary Throat is the autobiography of Pauli Murray, an American civil rights and women’s rights activist, lawyer, teacher, author, Episcopalian priest, and descendant of a North Carolina slave and slave owner. The first African-American to receive…
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Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray received the 1988 RFK Book Award for Song in a Weary Throat. Song in a Weary Throat is the autobiography of Pauli Murray, an American civil rights and women’s rights activist, lawyer, teacher, author, Episcopalian priest, and descendant of a North Carolina slave and slave owner. The first African-American to receive a J.S.D.…
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Toni Morrison
Tags Share Toni Morrison received the 1988 RFK Book Award for Beloved. Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of several novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Jazz. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert F.…
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David J. Garrow
Tags Share The 1987 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to David J. Garrow for Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Bearing the Cross is among the most comprehensive books ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based…
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Robert Norrell
Tags Share The 1986 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Robert Norrell for Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee and J. Anthony Lukas for Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. In Reaping the Whirlwind, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement…
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