NMLP P-032200 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

Virginia Hamilton (illus. Leo & Diane Dillon) · Alfred A. Knopf · 1985

The US Knopf 1985 edition is the true first and 'first thus' for this collection of twenty-four retold folktales. It won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and also received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032200 for "The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales" by Virginia Hamilton (illus. Leo & Diane Dillon) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032200, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).