Awards & Winners

1979 Coretta Scott King Award

Check winners and nominations of 1979 Coretta Scott King Award. Check awards winners of 1979 Coretta Scott King Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Coretta Scott King Award for Authors

Ossie Davis

Honored for : Escape to freedom

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lillie Patterson Benjamin Banneker, genius of early America
Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson I Have a Sister--My Sister Is Deaf
Virginia Hamilton Justice and her brothers
Carol Fenner The Skates of Uncle Richard
Ossie Davis Escape to freedom
Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators

Tom Feelings

Honored for : Something on My Mind