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Author Virginia Hamilton and actress
Della Reese To Highlight SRRT’S
American Library Association’s
Coretta Scott King Award
Honorary Campaign Chair
Celebration in New Orleans.

Virginia Hamilton, award-winning author of books for children and young adults, will serve as the honorary chair of the public awareness campaign for the Coretta Scott King Award, to be launched at a gala event on June 25, 1999 at the Annual Conference in New Orleans. Ms. Hamilton’s latest book title is Second Cousins, (Blue Sky Press, 1998) SRRT’s Coretta Scott King Task Force recently announced the theme of the campaign to be "Images of the Past, Promises for the Future: 30 Years of Coretta Scott King Award Books." The award’s 30th anniversary will be celebrated in New Orleans.

Celebrated actress Della Reese, author of a new children’s book, God Inside Of Me, (Jump in the Sun, Hyperion, 1998) is also scheduled to appear at the 30th Anniversary Breakfast on Tuesday, June 29, 1999.