Black Caucus of the American Library Association Awards Winners

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Awards

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

2006

Fiction

Third Girl From the Left, Martha Southgate

Fiction Honor

Snake Walkers, J. Everett Prewitt (Northland)
I Got Somebody In Staunton, William Henry Lewis

Nonfiction

Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas, Michael A. Gomez

Honor Nonfiction

Fighting for America: Black Soldiers-The Unsung Heroes of World War II, Christopher Paul Moore
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, Heather Andrea Williams
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, Jacqueline Stewart

First Novelist Award

Freshwater Road, Denise Nicholas

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists, Lisa E. Farrington

2005

Fiction

Leaving Cecil Street, Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Fiction Honor

Robbing Peter, Kia DuPree
Some People, Some Other Place, J. California Cooper (Doubleday)
The Blackbird Papers, Ian Smith

Nonfiction

A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, Howard French

Honor Nonfiction

Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press, Melba Joyce Boyd
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire, Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner

First Novelist Award

The Darkest Child, Delores

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neal Hurston, Lucy Anne Hurston

2004

Fiction

Hottentot Venus, Barbara Chase-Riboud

Fiction Honor

Loving Donovan, Bernice McFadden
Joshua's Bible, Shelly Leanna

Nonfiction

In Black and White: the Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Wil Haygood

Honor Nonfiction

Freedom in the Family: A Mother-daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, Tananarive Due & Patricia Stephens Due
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara Ransby

First Novelist Award

The Known World, Edward P. Jones

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representations, Michael D. Harris

2003

Fiction

Douglass Women, Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction Honor

Wisdom, Heather Neff
P.G. County, Connie Brisco
You Know Better, Tina McElroy Ansa

Nonfiction

Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, Elizabeth McHenry

Honor Nonfiction

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems, Nikki Giovanni
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing, edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family, Carole Merritt

First Novelist Award

The Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

We Shall not Be Moved: The Passage from the Great Migration to the Million Man March, Velma Maia Thomas

2002

Fiction

Pearl Cleage
I Wish I Had a Red Dress
(Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Cassette (abridged), Large Print)
Depicts the struggles of a widow committed to a professional career of helping women achieve and grow.

Fiction Honors

Colson Whitehead
John Henry Days, A Novel
(Hardcover, Paperback, Large Print)
Immortalizes the African American folk hero, "John Henry".
Karen Grigsby Bates
Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel
(Paperback)
Journalist helps the police solve the murder of a former colleague and friend.
Alexs D. Pates
West of Rehoboth: A Novel
(Hardcover, Paperback, Large Print)
A twelve year old boy in Rehoboth, Delaware comes of age while trying to make sense of his uncle’s sadness and despair.

Nonfiction

Vernon E. Jordan
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir
Vernon Jordan recounts the racism he encountered, his civil rights activism, and his work in organizations devoted to improving the lives of African Americans.

Honor Nonfiction

A’Lelia Bundles
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C. J. Walker
(Hardcover, Paperback, Large Print)
Biography of one of America’s early entrepreneurs and philanthropists.
John Edgar Wideman
Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love
Essays about growing up in an urban city, poor and black, strengthened and supported by family.
Gail Lumet Buckley
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
(Hardcover, Library Binding, Paperback)
Documents contributions of African Americans in the U. S. military.

First Novelist Award

David Anthony Durham
Gabriel’s Story
(Hardcover, Library Binding, Paperback, Large Print)
A fresh perspective of the 1870s American West as the teenage protagonist leaves home on a quest for adventure.

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

Donald Bogle
Primetime Blues: African Americans On Network Television
(Hardcover, Paperback)
Chronicles the history of African Americans in television.

2001

Fiction

Paule Marshall
The Fisher King

Honor Fiction

Venise Berry
All of Me
Bernice McFadden
Sugar

Nonfiction

Larry Eugene Rivers
Slavery In Florida: Territorial Days To Emancipation

Honor Nonfiction

Larry V. Buster
The Art and History of Black Memorabilia
Kevin Powell, ed.
Step Into A World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature

First Novelist Award

Allen B. Ballard
Where I’m Bound

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation

David Levering Lewis
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919–1963

2000

Fiction

Valerie Wilson Wesley
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do

Honor Fiction

Toni Cade Bambara
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Marc Olden
The Ghost
Connie Porter
Imani All Mine
Rita Dove
On The Bus With Rosa Parks: Poems

Nonfiction

Adele Logan Alexander
Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926 (1999)

Honor Nonfiction

Barbara Smith
B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations
Dee Parmer Woodtor
Finding A Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity

First Novelist Award

Paula L. Woods
Inner City Blues

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Africana

Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds.
The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

1999

Fiction

Gayl Jones
The Healing

Honor Fiction

Grace F. Edwards
A Toast Before Dying: A Mali Anderson Mystery
Eleanor Taylor Bland
See No Evil

Nonfiction

Carolyn Mazloomi
Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts

Honor Nonfiction

Juan Williams
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
Keith Michael Brown
Sacred Bond: Black Men and Their Mothers

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing The History of Black Business in America

Juliet E. K. Walker
Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship

1998

Fiction

Sandra Jackson-Opoku
The River Where Blood Is Born

Honor Fiction

Dawn Turner Trice
Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
John Calvin Rainey
The Thang That Ate My Grandaddy's Dog
Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made

First Novelist Award

Brian Keith Jackson
The View From Here

Nonfiction

Toi Derricotte
The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey

Honor Nonfiction

Arnold Rampersad
Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Velma Maia Thomas
Lest We Forget: The Passage From Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book With Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit
Claude Andrew Clegg
An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

1997

Fiction

Florence Ladd
Sarah’s Psalm

Honor Fiction

Faye McDonald Smith
Flight of the Blackbird
Derrick Bell
Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home

First Novelist Award

Sapphire
Push

Nonfiction

Nell Irvin Painter
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Honor Nonfiction

Kennell Jackson
America Is Me
Toni Cade Bambara and edited by Toni Morrison
Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing

Albert Murray
(Novelist, literature professor, and music scholar)

1996

Fiction

Walter Mosley
RL's Dream

Honor Fiction

A. J. Verdelle
The Good Negress

First Novelist Award

devorah majors
An Open Weave

Nonfiction

Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen, eds.
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men In America

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing

Paula L. Woods, ed.
Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime & Suspense Fiction

1995

Fiction

Maxine Clair
Rattlebone

Honor Fiction

Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell
I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love
Linda Raymond
Rocking the Babies

First Novelist Award

Helen Elaine Lee
The Serpent's Gift

Nonfiction

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation

Honor Nonfiction

James Melvin Washington, ed.
Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African-Americans
Gerald Early
Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing

Chester Higgins, Jr.
Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa

1994

Fiction

Ernest J. Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying

Honor fiction

Lionel Newton
Getting Right With God
Michelle Cliff
Free Enterprise

First Novelist Award

Alexs D. Pate
Losing Absalom

Nonfiction

David Levering Lewis
W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919

Honor Nonfiction

Thadious Davis
Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing

Darlene C. Hine, ed.
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia