Monetta Sleet Jr.
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Monetta Sleet Jr. (1926-1996) was an American photographer. He worked 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. Due to that photo, he became the first Black man, first Black person in journalism, and first and still the only person working for a Black publication to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Sleet Jr. received his BA from Kentucky State Collegea in 1947. He received his master's degree in journalism from New York University in 1950.
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