Author of "Our White Boy"
Jerry Craft appears in the following:
Author Jerry Craft: Most kids cheer for the heroes to succeed no matter who they are
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
New Kid won the Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. But the book has been challenged in some school districts for content related to race.
'Class Act' by Jerry Craft
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Newbery Medal-winner Jerry Craft on his new graphic novel for kids, "Class Act."
Jerry Craft: 'New Kid'
Thursday, February 06, 2020
Jerry Craft joins us to discuss his Newbery Medal-winning graphic novel, New Kid.
Jerry Craft: On Becoming Their White Boy
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Jerry Craft was 20 years old when a semi-pro baseball recruiter called him up to see if he'd consider playing for the Witchita Falls Graham Stars. He had been playing college baseball at Texas Tech and had never heard of the team, but said he would talk to the team's owner. When he arrived for his meeting in the summer of 1959, he realized the reason he didn't know about the team was because it was in the West Texas Colored League.
