#moneta sleet

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Billie Holiday. Photo by Moneta Sleet

Source : Jazz Photos Archive on Instagram

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Moneta Sleet Jr. (American, 1926-1996)

Two Teenaged Supporters of the Selma March

1965, printed c. 1970

Gelatin silver print

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Pam Grier, photo by Moneta Sleet

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In honor of MLK Day we're looking back to Moneta Sleet's 1965 photograph which was featured in our 2014 exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. In it, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead participants at the end of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery March to protest police brutality and to demand federal legislation to enforce voting rights. The 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed into law four and a half months later. 

Moneta Sleet Jr. (American, 1926—1996). Rosa Parks, Dr. and Mrs. Abernathy, Dr. Ralph Bunche, and Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. leading marchers into Montgomery, 1965, printed circa 1970. (c) Johnson Publishing Company, LLC

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Moneta Sleet

Moneta J. Sleet Jr. (February 14, 1926 - September 30, 1996) won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, at Dr. King's funeral. Sleet is the first African-American man to win the Pulitzer, and the first African American to win award for journalism. He died of cancer in 1996 at the age of 70.

Early life and education

Sleet was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was editor of the school newspaper at Western High School, his alma mater. He graduated cum laude from Kentucky State College (now Kentucky State University), a historically black college, in 1947 and went on to obtain a master's degree in journalism from New York University.

Ebony magazine

Sleet began working for Ebony magazine in 1955. Over the next 41 years, he captured photos of young Muhammad Ali, Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, and Billie Holiday. Besides his photo of Coretta Scott King, he also captured grieving widow Betty Shabazz at the funeral of Malcolm X. His collection Special Moments in African American History: The photographs of Moneta Sleet Jr. 1955-1996 was published posthumously in 1999.

Personal life

Moneta Sleet is the father of Gregory M. Sleet, a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

Moneta Sleet, while a resident of Baldwin, NY, died of cancer at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center on September 30, 1996.

Wikipedia

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Moneta J. Sleet Jr. (February 14, 1926 - September 30, 1996) won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, at Dr. King's funeral. Sleet is the first African-American man to win the Pulitzer, and the first African American to win a national award for journalism.

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Moneta Sleet - Dressed to impress, Harlem 1975

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This photo of Eartha Kitt was taken by Moneta Sleet, Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ebony photographer, in 1956 at the opening of Roxanne's Dressmakng Shop in New York City, co-owned by Ms. Kitt.