of the Year and Gold Medal Award for National Professor of the Year, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, both 1986 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, 1986–87. References Further reading "Julius Lester". Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 51. Gale Group, 2003. Lester, Julius. Lovesong: Becoming a Jew, 1988. Oppenheimer, Joel. "The Soul that Wanders". The New York Times. January 31, 1988. Retrieved 2015-09-11. External links SNCC Digital Gateway: Julius Lester, Documentary website telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and grassroots organizing, created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University. Manuscript Finding Aids at Jones Library (Amherst, MA) Julius Lester at Profotos.com Activists for African-American civil rights History of civil rights in the United States African-American children's writers American non-fiction children's writers American humanities academics American male novelists University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Newbery Honor winners African-American novelists Jewish American writers Fisk University alumni Converts to Judaism from Methodism African-American Jews 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers American people of German-Jewish descent Novelists from Massachusetts Novelists from Missouri Writers from St. Louis 1939 births 2018 deaths 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American writers 21st-century American Jews African-American male writers