| LC control no. | n 98077740 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sleet, Moneta, Jr., 1926-1996 |
| Variant(s) | Sleet, Moneta, 1926-1996 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19260214 |
| Death date | 19960930 |
| Place of birth | Owensboro (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Baldwin (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Kentucky State College (Frankfort, Ky.) New York University University of Kentucky |
| Profession or occupation | Photojournalists |
| Found in | Special moments in African-American history ... 1998: CIP t.p. (photographs of Moneta Sleet, Jr.; Ebony magazine's Pulitzer Prize winner) galleys 4, 170 (b. Feb. 14, 1926 in Owensboro, Ky.; d. Sept. 30, 1996) African American National Biography, accessed September 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Sleet, Moneta Jr.; photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize Winner; born 14 February 1926 in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States; enrolled at Kentucky State College (1942); joined the army (1944) and served with the all-black Ninety-third Engineers unit in India and Burma; finished his BS degree and moved to New York City; took a course in photography, School of Modern Photography; earned MA in Journalism, New York University (1950); his work first appeared in a museum exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1960 show Photography in the Fine Arts, II; best known for photos he took at King's 1968 funeral, including the iconic image of Bernice King sitting in the lap of her mother, Coretta Scott King, for which he became the first African American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Photography (1969); covered the independence celebrations of Ghana (1957), Nigeria (1961), Kenya (1963), and South Africa (1994); inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, University of Kentucky (1989); died 30 September 1996 in Baldwin, New York, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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