Martin Luther King Memorial Prize
The Martin Luther King Memorial Prize was instituted by novelist John Brunner and his wife and was awarded annually to a literary work published in the US or Britain that was deemed to improve interracial understanding, "reflecting the ideals to which Dr. Martin Luther King dedicated his life". The author of the winning work was awarded £100.
Winners of the prize have included Because They're Black by Derek Humphry and Gus John, Black and White: The Negro and English Society by James Walvin, A Dry White Season by André Brink, In a Dark Time edited by Nicholas Humphrey and Robert Lifton, The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe, The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips, and Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain by Ferdinand Dennis.
