Moneta J. Sleet Jr.; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer

Moneta J. Sleet Jr., 70, who became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography. As a staff photographer for Ebony, Sleet covered Martin Luther King Jr. receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Sweden in 1964 and marching in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. He also covered King’s funeral, and it was a picture of the mourning Coretta Scott King comforting her daughter Bernice that earned the 1969 Pulitzer for feature photography. The photograph was distributed by the Associated Press and widely published throughout the country. He also received awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, the National Urban League and the National Assn. of Black Journalists. His work was exhibited in Harlem’s Studio Museum and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. On Monday in New York of cancer.