Moneta Sleet, Jr.
American journalist · United States · Journalists · Lived 1926 to 1996 · aged 70
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Something wrong?Moneta J. Sleet Jr. was an American press photographer best known for his work as a staff photographer for Ebony magazine. 's widow, at her husband's funeral. Sleet was the first African-American man to win the Pulitzer, and the first African American to win the award for journalism.
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Moneta J. Sleet Jr. was an American press photographer best known for his work as a staff photographer for Ebony magazine. In 1969 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photograph of Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, at her husband's funeral. Sleet was the first African-American man to win the Pulitzer, and the first African American to win the award for journalism. He died of cancer in 1996 at the age of 70.
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