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Book and Author Luncheons - Historical Timeline

1967 Ted Shine Sho' is Hot in the Cotton Patch
1968 Nathan Hare
Rev. David Eaton
Clemont Vondress
Black Anglo Saxons
1969 Jesse Lewis Ten Blocks from the White House
1970 Elliot Liebow Tally's Corner
1971 Louise Merriweather Daddy Was a Number Runner
1972 John O. Killens The Cotillion
1973 Sharon Mathis, Children's Lit
Annie Crittenden, Playwriting
Lance Jeffers, Theatre Arts
DC Black Writers Workshop
1974 Baker Morton No More Nigger Thinking
1975 Frank Davis The Economics of Black Community Development
1976 Gladys Marie Frye Night Riders in Black Folk History
1977 Lucille Clifton Generations
1978 Dorothy Gilliam Paul Robeson: A Man and His Works
1979 Pauli Murray Proud Shoes
1980 James E. Johnson Beyond Defeat
1981 Lillian Anthony-Welch Black Memorabilia Presentation
1982 George Trower-Subia
Patricia Press, Realtor
Yolanda Queen, Bank Manager
Black Folks Guide to Making Big Money in America
1983 Roger Wilkins A Man's Life
1984 Faith Berry Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem
1985 Paula Giddings When and Where I Enter
1986 Doris McMillon Mixed Blessing
1987 Marita Golden
W. Paul Coates and others
Expanding the Market for Black Authors
1988 Juan Williams Eyes on the Prize
1989 Laini Mataka Never as Strangers
1990 James D. Comer Maggie's American Dream
1991 Anthony T. Browder From the Browder File
1992 Thomas Battle, Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Bettye Collier, Center for African American History and Culture
Alfred A. Moss, Author and Historian
Celebrating and Documenting the African American Experience
1993 J. California Cooper Homemade Love
1994 Dori Sanders Her Own Place
1995 Helen Elaine Lee The Serpent's Gift
1996 Claud Anderson Black Labor, White Wealth
1997 Jewel Diamond Taylor Success Gems
1998 Connie Briscoe Sisters and Lovers
1999 Jeffrey C. Stewart, Editor Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen
2000 Congressman John Lewis Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
2001 E. Ethelbert Miller Fathering Words
2002 Maxine Clair October Suite
2003 Jabari Asim, Editor Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life
2004 Will Haygood In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
2005 Kumea Shorter-Gooden Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
2006 Denise Nicholas Freshwater Road
2007 Malaika Adero
E. Ralph Eubanks
The Future of the Book and its Implication for Black Writers
2008 Lucy Anne Hurston Speak, So You Can Speak Again
2009 Breena Clarke Stand The Storm
2010 Gwen Ifill The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
2011

Judy Richardson

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
2012 Walter Mosley All I Did Was Shoot My Man
 

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