Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Hooks National Book Award 2024

Deadline: December 31, 2024

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change on the University of Memphis (Memphis, TN) is accepting nominations for the 2024 Hooks National Book Award. This award is given every calendar 12 months to a guide that finest furthers our understanding of the civil rights motion.

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute implements its mission of instructing, finding out and selling civil rights and social change by analysis, schooling and direct intervention packages. Institute packages embody group outreach; funding college analysis initiatives on group points; implementing group service initiatives; internet hosting conferences, symposiums and lectures; and selling native and nationwide scholarship on civil and human rights. The Hooks Institute is an interdisciplinary middle on the University of Memphis. Contributed income for the Hooks Institute, together with funding from people, firms and foundations, is run by the University of Memphis Foundation, a 501(c)(3) group.

Award

• One award of $1,000 will probably be made to the writer(s) of the award-winning guide. 
• The recipient(s) of the award will obtain an invite to ship an tackle on the University of Memphis as a part of the Hooks Institute Lecture Series through the 2025-26 tutorial 12 months.

Eligibility

• Non-fiction books with a first-published date within the 2024 calendar 12 months are eligible for the award.
• Non-fiction books specializing in previous or present civil rights or social justice points, leaders, insurance policies, and many others. are eligible.
• Revised editions of beforehand printed books will not be eligible.

Nomination

Provide full contact data for the writer(s) and nominator(s), to incorporate an e mail tackle, mailing tackle, and phone quantity, and submit one copy of the nominated guide (postmarked by December 31, 2024) to The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, Attn: Benjamin L. Hooks Book Award Nomination, 946 East Park Loop, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, 38152.

Required nomination data could also be submitted by e mail to Rorie Trammel, [email protected]. The nominated guide should nonetheless be despatched to the Hooks Institute.

For extra data, go to Hooks National Book Award.