Open AccessEditor’s Note: CSK Awards Celebrate Fifty Years
Author(s) -
Sharon Verbeten
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
children and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-7641
pISSN - 1542-9806
DOI - 10.5860/cal.16.4.2
Subject(s) - honor , martin luther king , art , history , classics , art history , law , political science , civil rights , computer science , operating system
The world was a very different place in 1969 when the Coretta Scott King Award was instituted to honor African-American authors. Dr. Martin Luther King had recently been assassinated. And there was no organized group to advocate for We Need Diverse Books.But, thankfully, several librarians and a book publisher came together to establish the CSK Award, which will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2019.