Nominations and awards

Selected nominations and awards:

Chubb Fellowship Award – Yale University 1970

National Book Award for “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” 1970

Pulitzer Prize Nomination for “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie” 1972

Tony Award Nomination for performance in “Look Away” 1973

Emmy Award Nomination for “Roots” 1977

The North Carolina Award in Literature 1987

American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award 1990

Essence Woman of the Year 1992

Horatio Alger Award 1992

Woman in Film Award 1992

Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album 1994

Spingarn Award NAACP 1994

President's Award, Collegiate of Language Association for Outstanding Achievements, Winston-Salem, NC 1996

Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Los Angeles & Martin Luther King, Jr., Legacy Association National Award 1996

Humanitarian Contribution Award, Boston, MA 1997

Alston/Jones International Civil & Human Rights Award 1998

Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature 1999

Presidential Medal of Arts 2000

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