Moneta Sleet Jr.

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Moneta J. Sleet Jr. (February 14, 1926-1996), an American press photographer best known for his work as a staff photographer for Ebony magazine, was born on February 14, 1926. 1926.

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 to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win the award for journalism.

At the age of 70, he died of cancer in 1996.

Early life and education

Sleet was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was the editor of the Western High School newspaper, alma mater. He graduated from Kentucky State College (now Kentucky State University), a historically black college, in 1947, and then went on to obtain a master's degree in journalism from New York University (NYU). He also studied at the School of Modern Photography, where he improved his photography abilities. Sleet worked in an all-African American unit in World War II and was an assistant in a commercially owned studio during this period. After his education at NYU, he was a sport's journalist for the Amsterdam News in New York and then for John P. Davis' magazine Our World.

Personal life

Sleet married Juanita in 1950 and had two sons and one daughter: Gregory M. Sleet, a judge who used to be on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Lisa and Michael Sleet, and Michael Sleet. Sleet was also a member of Sigma Pi Phi, the oldest African-lettered group, as well as MLK. He was a member of an international media club, so he took a lot of photos of world leaders.

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

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