James Haskins (1941–2005)
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Author Jim Haskins was born in Demopolis, Alabama on September 19, 1941. He received a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1960, a B.S. from Alabama State University in 1962, and a M.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1963. After graduation, he became a special education teacher in a public mehr anzeigen school in Harlem. His first book, Diary of a Harlem School Teacher, was the result of his experience there. He taught at numerous colleges and universities before becoming an English professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville in 1977. He wrote more than 100 books during his lifetime, ranging from counting books for children to biographies on Rosa Parks, Hank Aaron and Spike Lee. He won numerous awards for his work including the 1976 Coretta Scott King Award for The Story of Stevie Wonder, the 1984 Coretta Scott King Award for Lena Horne, the 1979 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime; and the 1994 Washington Post Children's Book Guide Award. He also won the Carter G. Woodson Award for young adult non-fiction for Black Music in America; The March on Washington; and Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History in 1989, 1994, and 2001, respectively. He died from complications of emphysema on July 6, 2005 at the age of 63. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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(eng) Do not separate James Haskins into multiple authors unless you are certain this is correct. James Haskins (often Jim Haskins), an educator in New York City and Florida, wrote more than 100 books on subjects as diverse as African-American history, child abuse, alcoholism, werewolves, street gangs, religions, Indian history, sports and music biographies, and the Count Your Way series. The academic site listed in the sidebar has a large list of his many books.
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Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940 (Great Journeys) (2000) 13 Exemplare
Following Freedom's Star: The Story of the Underground Railroad (Great Journeys) (2002) 11 Exemplare
Black Stars of Colonial Times and the Revolutionary War: African Americans Who Lived Their Dreams (2002) — Herausgeber — 10 Exemplare
I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) 7 Exemplare
Hippocrene U.S.A. Guide to Historic Black South: Historical Sites, Cultural Centers, and Musical Happenings of the… (1993) 5 Exemplare
Sing me a swing song and let me dance - Ella Fitzgerald : die First Lady des Jazz (1998) 2 Exemplare
Cocktail Piano 2 2 Exemplare
Champion The story of Muhammad Ali 1 Exemplar
Cocktail Piano Vol. 11 1 Exemplar
The Statue of Liberty, America's proud lady 1 Exemplar
The Day Ft. Sumpter Was Fired On 1 Exemplar
Cocktail Piano V 1 Exemplar
Cocktail Piano Vol. 10 1 Exemplar
Cocktail Piano XIV 1 Exemplar
Cocktail Piano I 1 Exemplar
Cocktail Piano's Four Seasons, XII 1 Exemplar
Cocktail Piano IV 1 Exemplar
Black Manifesto for Education. — Herausgeber — 1 Exemplar
Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1 Exemplar
Thurgood Marshall A life for Justice 1 Exemplar
Pickney Benton Steward Pinchback 1 Exemplar
Dead Aaron (IN: Great ghost stories) 1 Exemplar
Resistance; profiles in nonviolence 1 Exemplar
The War and the Protest : Vietnam 1 Exemplar
Get On Board: underground railroad 1 Exemplar
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Cobblestone: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement 1994.02 (1994) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
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- HASKINS, Jim
HASKINS, James S.
HASKINS, James - Geburtstag
- 1941-09-14
- Todestag
- 2005-07-06
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Demopolis, Alabama, USA
- Sterbeort
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA - Ausbildung
- Georgetown University (BA|1960)
Alabama State University (BS|1962)
University of New Mexico (MA|1963) - Berufe
- university professor
music teacher
special education teacher
curator
editor
book reviewer (Zeige alle 7)
stock trader - Organisationen
- University of Florida, Gainesville
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
National Education Advisory Committee of The Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution
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The Gainesville Sun (Zeige alle 8)
Opportunity magazine
Footsteps magazine - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- James Haskins Visiting Scholar Fellowship named in his honor (University of Florida)
- Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
- Do not separate James Haskins into multiple authors unless you are certain this is correct. James Haskins (often Jim Haskins), an educator in New York City and Florida, wrote more than 100 books on subjects as diverse as African-American history, child abuse, alcoholism, werewolves, street gangs, religions, Indian history, sports and music biographies, and the Count Your Way series. The academic site listed in the sidebar has a large list of his many books.
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Dated, stylistically, reminded me of the Lauren Bacall book I read as a teenager. Bricktop apparently had a je ne sais quoi that resulted in her great success as a caberet singer and night club owner—the book is a veritable list of who’s who. But this didn’t translate well through the book. I have no idea what she was like or why people (according to her) adored her so much. She kept questionable company as well…. Lots of people we now know of as nazi and nazi sympathizers…but she seemed to try to live by a simple credo: if you treat me well I’ll treat you well…but these people are not good for the world…. So I’m confused after reading the book.… (mehr)
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