James Haskins (1941–2005)
Autor/a de Rosa Parks: My Story
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Nota de desambiguació:
(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.
Crèdit de la imatge: University of Florida
Sèrie
Obres de James Haskins
Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940 (Great Journeys) (2000) 13 exemplars
Following Freedom's Star: The Story of the Underground Railroad (Great Journeys) (2002) 10 exemplars
Black Stars of Colonial Times and the Revolutionary War: African Americans Who Lived Their Dreams (2002) — Editor — 10 exemplars
I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) 7 exemplars
Hippocrene U.S.A. Guide to Historic Black South: Historical Sites, Cultural Centers, and Musical Happenings of the… (1993) 5 exemplars
Cocktail Piano 2 2 exemplars
Cocktail Piano I 1 exemplars
Champion The story of Muhammad Ali 1 exemplars
Cocktail Piano Vol. 11 1 exemplars
Cocktail Piano's Four Seasons, XII 1 exemplars
The Statue of Liberty, America's proud lady 1 exemplars
Cocktail Piano IV 1 exemplars
Cocktail Piano XIV 1 exemplars
Cocktail Piano Vol. 10 1 exemplars
Cocktail Piano V 1 exemplars
Sing me a swing song and let me dance - Ella Fitzgerald : die First Lady des Jazz (1998) 1 exemplars
Black Manifesto for Education. — Editor — 1 exemplars
Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1 exemplars
Thurgood Marshall A life for Justice 1 exemplars
Pickney Benton Steward Pinchback 1 exemplars
Dead Aaron (IN: Great ghost stories) 1 exemplars
Resistance; profiles in nonviolence 1 exemplars
The War and the Protest : Vietnam 1 exemplars
The Day Ft. Sumpter Was Fired On 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Cobblestone: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement 1994.02 (1994) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- HASKINS, Jim
HASKINS, James S.
HASKINS, James - Data de naixement
- 1941-09-14
- Data de defunció
- 2005-07-06
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Demopolis, Alabama, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- Georgetown University (BA|1960)
Alabama State University (BS|1962)
University of New Mexico (MA|1963) - Professions
- university professor
music teacher
special education teacher
curator
editor
book reviewer (mostra-les totes 7)
stock trader - Organitzacions
- 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 (mostra-les totes 8)
Opportunity magazine
Footsteps magazine - Premis i honors
- James Haskins Visiting Scholar Fellowship named in his honor (University of Florida)
- Nota de desambiguació
- 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.
Membres
Ressenyes
Nat King Cole de James Haskins
First edition
Dec. 1 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 185
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 7,176
- Popularitat
- #3,418
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 89
- ISBN
- 438
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 2
- Pedres de toc
- 15