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Pulitzer Winner: Moneta J. Sleet, Jr., Noted Photographer
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Los Angeles Sentinel
11-07-1996
PULITZER WINNER: Moneta J. Sleet, Jr., Noted Photographer.
Moneta J. Sleet Jr., who documented the Civil Rights movement and became the first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography, has died. He was 70.
Sleet died Oct. 1 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York of cancer that spread to his liver, family members said.
Sleet was working for Ebony Magazine when he took the picture that won him the 1969 Pulitzer for feature photography - an image of Coretta Scott King comforting her daughter Bernice at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.
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