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Moneta Sleet Jr. is an American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his work documenting the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1969 for his photograph of the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. Sleet was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied photography and journalism. After graduating in 1950, he worked as a freelance photographer for Ebony and Jet magazines. In the 1960s, Sleet began to focus on documenting the civil rights movement. He traveled throughout the United States, photographing civil rights leaders and events. He also photographed the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, which won him the Pulitzer Prize. Sleet continued to work as a freelance photographer throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He also taught photography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sleet's work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Modern Art, and the International Center of Photography. He has also received numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography and the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Photography. Moneta Sleet Jr. is currently 94 years old. He has a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m). He has not revealed his dating history. He has not shared about He's parent's name. Our team currently working, we will update Family, Sibling, Spouse and Children's information. Right now, we don't have much information about Education Life.

Popular As Moneta John Sleet Jr.
Occupation Press photographer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 14 February 1926
Birthday 14 February
Birthplace Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.
Date of death (1996-09-30) Baldwin, New York, U.S.
Died Place Baldwin, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1996

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

1955

Sleet began working for Ebony magazine in 1955. Over the next 41 years, he captured photos of young Muhammad Ali, Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, former ambassador Andrew Young in a blue leather jacket and jeans in his office at the United Nations, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Liberia's William Tubman and Billie Holiday. He gained the affection and esteem of many civil rights leaders, many of whom called on him by name. When Coretta Scott King found out that no African American photographers had been assigned to cover her husband's funeral service, she demanded that Sleet be a part of the press pool. If he was not, she threatened to bar all photographers from the service. Besides his photo of Coretta Scott King, he also captured grieving widow Betty Shabazz at the funeral of her husband Malcolm X. A collection of his photographs in book form, Special Moments in African-American History, 1955-1996: the Photographs of Moneta Sleet, Jr., Ebony Magazine's Pulitzer Prize Winner, was published posthumously in 1998.

1950

Sleet married his wife 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. Sleet was also a member of Sigma Pi Phi, the oldest African-American Greek-lettered organization, along with MLK. He was a part of an overseas press club so he took a lot of pictures of international world leaders.

1947

Sleet was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was editor of the school newspaper at Western High School, his alma mater. He graduated cum laude from Kentucky State College (now Kentucky State University), a historically black college, in 1947 and went on to obtain a master's degree in journalism from New York University (NYU) in 1950. He also studied at the School of Modern Photography where he furthered his photography skills. During this same time Sleet served in an all-African American unit in World War II and was an assistant at a commercial operated studio. After his education at NYU he was a sport’s journalist for the Amsterdam News in New York and then John P. Davis' magazine Our World.

1926

Moneta J. Sleet Jr. (February 14, 1926 – September 30, 1996) 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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