Amy Hill Hearth

Amy, the producers, and director Lynne Littman were given a Peabody Award for their work on "Having Our Say," the 1999 film adaptation of the book. Amy was a consultant and advisor whose role was to ensure the historical accuracy of the production. She worked with the producers, the actresses, and the screenwriter, Emily Mann. The film starred Ruby Dee as Bessie Delany, Diahann Carroll as Sadie Delany, and Amy Madigan as Amy Hill Hearth. 

The American Library Association selected both Having Our Say (adult category) and Streetcar to Justice (children's category) as "Notable Books."

In 1993, Having Our Say received an NAACP Image Award Nomination for Literature. 

Amy won the Inaugural Septima Clark "Women in Literature" Award in 2019 from the National Council for the Social Studies for her book, Streetcar to Justice. The annual award recognizes a "notable, high-quality trade book that centers on the challenges and accomplishments of women, both in the United States and internationally." 

Having Our Say selected for "One Book, One City" celebrations (citywide book reads) in numerous cities, including Washington, D.C., New Rochelle, N.Y., Columbia, South Carolina and Lawrence, Kansas. Strong Medicine Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say selected for Cumberland County, New Jersey group read.

New York Public Library's "Best Books for the Teen Age" (four times: For Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom, On My Own, and In a World Gone Mad)

For Having Our Say, Amy and the Delany Sisters won an "ABBY" Honor Book Award from the American Booksellers Association in 1994. Photo shows Amy, center, with Sadie Delany, at left, and Bessie Delany, right, at the sisters' home in Mt. Vernon, New York. Photo by Blair Hearth. Copyright 1992 A.H. Hearth.

For the Broadway adaptation of her book, "Having Our Say," Amy was part of the production that was nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Play, in 1995. The adaptation was written by Emily Mann. Amy was a consultant and advisor whose role was to ensure the historical accuracy of the production. She worked with the producers, the actresses, and the playwright/director Emily Mann. (Photo shows Amy with her parents outside the Booth Theatre with "Having Our Say" on the marquee. Photo copyright A.H. Hearth)

For their book, Having Our Say, Amy and the Delany Sisters won a Christopher Award for Literature (1993). Six years later, the movie adaptation of the book won a Christopher Award for Film (1999). Amy was a consultant and advisor on the film production. 

Amy received a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Award in 2018 for her book, Streetcar to Justice.

In 1993, Amy received the Gwen and C. Dale White Award from the New York Chapter of the Methodist Federation for Social Action.