Deep Sorrow, 1968

Sleet’s photo of Bernice King tearfully clasping her mother inside the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her father had been the pastor for the last eight years won a Pulitzer Prize, making Sleet the first African American journalist to win that award.

Morning Mist, Franklin River

Peter Dombrovskis’s photos become central to save a section of the Franklin River which would be submerged by a proposed dam with environmental groups took out full-page color advertisements before a crucial election.