7th Annual RFK Book Award (1986-1987)

	Winner: David J. Garrow Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
	Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Becker When the War Was Over: The Voices of Cambodia's Revolution and Its People
	Honorable Mention: Dr. Robert Coles The Political Lives of Children

Judges: John Brademus, Ellen Goodman, William Hillard, George Plimpton