James Haskins (1941–2005)
Autor(a) de Rosa Parks: My Story
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(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.
Image credit: University of Florida
Séries
Obras por James Haskins
Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940 (Great Journeys) (2000) 13 exemplares
Following Freedom's Star: The Story of the Underground Railroad (Great Journeys) (2002) 11 exemplares
Black Stars of Colonial Times and the Revolutionary War: African Americans Who Lived Their Dreams (2002) — Editor — 10 exemplares
I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) 7 exemplares
Hippocrene U.S.A. Guide to Historic Black South: Historical Sites, Cultural Centers, and Musical Happenings of the… (1993) 5 exemplares
Separate but not equal; the dream and the struggle. 2 exemplares
Cocktail Piano 2 2 exemplares
Cocktail Piano Vol. 10 1 exemplar
Champion The story of Muhammad Ali 1 exemplar
The Day Ft. Sumpter Was Fired On 1 exemplar
The Statue of Liberty, America's proud lady 1 exemplar
Cocktail Piano Vol. 11 1 exemplar
Cocktail Piano IV 1 exemplar
Cocktail Piano's Four Seasons, XII 1 exemplar
Cocktail Piano I 1 exemplar
Cocktail Piano V 1 exemplar
Cocktail Piano XIV 1 exemplar
Black Manifesto for Education. — Editor — 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
Associated Works
Cobblestone: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement 1994.02 (1994) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- HASKINS, Jim
HASKINS, James S.
HASKINS, James - Data de nascimento
- 1941-09-14
- Data de falecimento
- 2005-07-06
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Demopolis, Alabama, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Georgetown University (BA|1960)
Alabama State University (BS|1962)
University of New Mexico (MA|1963) - Ocupações
- university professor
music teacher
special education teacher
curator
editor
book reviewer (mostrar todos 7)
stock trader - Organizações
- 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
CIVITAS
The Gainesville Sun (mostrar todos 8)
Opportunity magazine
Footsteps magazine - Prémios e menções honrosas
- James Haskins Visiting Scholar Fellowship named in his honor (University of Florida)
- Nota de desambiguação
- 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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 185
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 7,302
- Popularidade
- #3,347
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 91
- ISBN
- 437
- Línguas
- 6
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
Historical time frame: 1913 - 1991
Warning: discussion of racism, violence, etc.
Ivy review on Goodreads.com -
Not only is Rosa Parks an inspiration to activists around the world, but her writing is also inspirational and beautiful. It is amazing what she had to go through to receive basic rights for black people, yet she is totally humble and thankful to everyone who supported her in her activism. The book also has photos, including ones from the bus boycott. There is some description of brutality, so I'd recommend this book to ages 15+, especially if you're like me and are quite sensitive to violence.… (mais)