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He was the second six children -
He Worte a brilliant book about the ABC's with drawing all at the age of 5 -
After high school he went to the tuition free school, Cooper Union School of Art and Engineering in NYC -
He was draft day the US army into the segregated 502nd Port Battalion
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He enrolled in Colombia University to study arts, and graduating in 1950
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He went France to study art at Univerite d’Aix Marseill
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He won an annual art competition in Skowhegan -
Ashley headed to the University of Freiburg on a Fulbright grant -
He returned to NY, and began teaching art at different institutions -
Ashley signed a contract to illustrate poems by Rabindranath -
Ashley joined faculty at Dartmouth College, and eventually became head of visual studies and taught all levels of undergraduate courses.
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He retired from Dartmouth and moved to Cranberry isles. During these years he made illustrated books to bring african tales, proverbs, spirituals, and songs to life.He published 10 books with Atheneum and 8 with other publishers.
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He published Beautiful Blackbird wing a Coretta Scott King book award -
Let It Shine won Ashley his third Coretta Scott King award, and honored as a New York City library lion. -
He won Laura Ingalls Wilder award for lifetime achievement -
He won the Golden Kite award for the Words to the My Life Song -
The people of cranberry island named a school after Ashley. -
He won the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton award for lifetime achievement. -
The Ashley Bryan Center was built -
He published Freedom Over Me -
Freedom over me was award Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King author honor, and Boston Globe honored book award -
An agreement is reached that University of Pennsylvania will hold Ashley works -
His final book, Infinite Hope receives Coretta Scott king author honor -
On February 4, in the city of Sugarland, Texas. Ashley passes due to old age.