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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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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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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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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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J. Anthony Lukas
Tags Share The 1986 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Robert Norell 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. Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, Common Ground recounts Boston’s busing crisis in the tumultuous…
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Raymond Bonner
Tags Share Raymond Bonner received the 1985 RFK Book Award for Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy in El Salvador. A land and culture poorly understood by analysts, politicians, and voters in the far-off United States. A regime permeated with corruption; a country in the steel grip of a few families that disdained any system which…
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Roger Rosenblatt
Tags Share The 1984 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Roger Rosenblatt for Children of War. Based on a Special Report Rosenblatt wrote for Time magazine, Children of War reveals the beliefs, hopes, and fears of children caught in the fury of war through on-the-spot interviews with children in five war zones: Northern…
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Stephen B. Oates
Tags Share The 1983 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Stephen B. Oates for Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. The book is a brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., that portrays a very real man and his dream that shaped America’s history. Stephen…
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