Nash, Sunny

Chosen by the Association of American University Presses as one of its essential books for understanding race relations in the United States, ***[Bigmama Didn’t Shop At Woolworth’s][1]*** by the award-winning author, **Sunny Nash**, is also listed in the Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies by the Schomburg Center in New York and recommended for Native American collections by the Miami-Dade Public Library System in Florida.

Sunny Nash is an award-winning journalist, photographer, producer and public speaker. Her work appears in the African American National Biography by Harvard and Oxford; African American West, A Century of Short Stories; Reflections in Black, A History of Black Photography 1840 - Present; Ancestry Magazine; Companion to Southern Literature; Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy; African American Foodways; Southwestern American Literature Journal and other anthologies. Nash is listed in references: The Source: a guidebook to American genealogy; Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies; Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics; Ebony Magazine; Southern Exposure; Hidden Sources: Family History in Unlikely Places; and others.

**[Sunny Nash][2]** won writing fellowships from the Arts Council for Long Beach in 2003 and 2010. Other honors include Charter Communications television producer’s award 2004 and a nomination for the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism for television production, *We Have Something To Say*, a program about educationally challenged students and won a nomination for a "Sammy Davis Award" for the show's theme song of the same name.


[1]: http://sunnynash.blogspot.com/p/bigmama-didnt-shop-at-woolworths.html
[2]: http://sunnynash.blogspot.com/p/about-sunny-nash.html