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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう

Edition 24 (1959)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

3 people
Martin Luther King Jr. まーてぃん るーさー きんぐ じゅにあ Winner

A memoir centered on the Montgomery bus boycott that traces how the civil rights movement took shape through King himself. It shows that the movement was built not only on personal courage but also on collective work with fellow activists, and it presents nonviolent resistance as a lived practice.

A firsthand account of how nonviolent resistance took shape in the Montgomery boycott.

240 pages
civil rights movementnonviolent resistanceMontgomery bus boycottcollective actionsegregation
George Eaton Simpson じょーじ いーとん しんぷそん Winner

An academic study that organizes prejudice and discrimination against racial and cultural minorities as a problem that cuts across social structures. It analyzes how bias develops and persists across institutions such as the economy, politics, religion, and education.

A foundational study for understanding prejudice as a social structure rather than a matter of personal feeling.

512 pages
race relationsprejudicediscriminationsociologyinstitutional analysis
John Milton Yinger じぇい みるとん やいんがー Winner

An academic study that organizes prejudice and discrimination against racial and cultural minorities as a problem that cuts across social structures. It analyzes how bias develops and persists across institutions such as the economy, politics, religion, and education.

A foundational study for understanding prejudice as a social structure rather than a matter of personal feeling.

512 pages
race relationsprejudicediscriminationsociologyinstitutional analysis