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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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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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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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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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William H. Chafe
Tags Share The 1981 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to William H. Chafe for Civilities and Civil Rights. The book reveals how whites in Greensboro, North Carolina, used the traditional Southern concept of “civility” as a means of keeping black protest in check and how, as a result, black activists continually devised new…
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Janet Sharp Hermann
Tags Share Janet Sharp Hermann received the 1982 RFK Book Award for The Pursuit of a Dream. The Pursuit of a Dream is a fascinating history set in the Reconstruction South is a testament to African-American resilience, fortitude, and independence. It tells of three attempts to create an ideal community on the river bottom lands…
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Peter S. Prescott
Tags Share The 1982 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Peter S. Prescott for The Child Savers. The Child Savers is hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system. Platt’s principal argument is that the “child savers” movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but…
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Alessandra Korap Munduruku
Tags Share Alessandra Korap Munduruku, 36, is a human rights defender and leader of the Munduruku people of the Tapajós River Middle Course. Born in the village of Praia do Índio, in the municipality of Itaituba (Pará) in the Brazilian Amazon region, she taught early childhood education from 2014 to 2015 and was the coordinator…
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Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley
Tags Share The Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley are a collective group of women from South Texas who provide emergency assistance to asylum seekers at ports of entry and bus stations along the U.S.-Mexico border. The group aims to offer food, water, clothing, toiletries, logistical support, and cash funds when needed…
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