Publications by James Haskins

Sole Authorship

• Diary of a Harlem Schoolteacher (Grove 1969; Stein & Day 1979)
• Resistance: Profiles in Nonviolence (Doubleday 1970)
• The War and the Protest: Vietnam (Doubleday 1970)
• Revolutionaries: Agents of Change (Lippincott 1971)
• Profiles in Black Power (Doubleday 1972)
• A Piece of the Power: Four Black Mayors (Dial 1972)
• Religions (Lippincott 1973); revised and reissued (Hippocrene 1991)
• From Lew Alcindor to Kareem Abdul Jabbar (Lothrop 1973); revised and reissued (Lothrop 1978)
• Jokes From Black Folks (Doubleday 1973)
• Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (Macmillan 1973; Africa World Press 1996)
• Ralph Bunche: A Most Reluctant Hero (Hawthorn 1974)
• Adam Clayton Powell: Portrait of a Marching Black (Dial 1974; updated, Africa World Press, 1992)
• Street Gangs: Yesterday and Today (Hastings House 1974)
• Witchcraft, Mysticism & Magic in the Black World (Doubleday 1974)
• Jobs in Business and Office (Lothrop 1974)
• Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron: The Home Run Kings (Lothrop 1974)
• Snow Sculpture and Ice Carving (Macmillan 1974)
• Fighting Shirley Chisholm (Dial 1975)
• The Consumer Movement (Watts 1975)
• The Creoles of Color of New Orleans (Crowell 1975)
• The Picture Life of Malcolm X (Watts 1975)
• Dr. J: A Biography of Julius Erving (Doubleday 1975)
• Your Rights: Past and Present (Hawthorn 1975)
• The Story of Stevie Wonder (Lothrop 1976; London: Panther 1978) – Winner of The Coretta Scott King Award  
• Always Movin’ On: The Life of Langston Hughes (Watts 1976; updated and reissued, Africa World  Press, 1992)
• A New Kind of Joy: The Story of the Special Olympics (Doubleday 1976)
• The Long Struggle: American Labor (Westminster 1976)
• Teenage Alcoholism (Hawthorn 1976)
• Pele: A Biography (Doubleday 1976)
• Barbara Jordan (Dial 1977)
• The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Lothrop 1977); updated and reissued (Lothrop 1992)
• The Cotton Club (Random House 1977; New American Library 1984; London:  Robson, 1985;  Paris:  Éditions Jade 1985; Hippocrene 1994) – Inspiration for the film of the same name
• Who Are the Handicapped? (Doubleday 1978)
• Real Estate Careers (Watts 1978)
• Voodoo & Hoodoo: Their Tradition and Craft (Stein & Day 1978; Scarborough House 1990)
• Bob McAdoo, Superstar (Lothrop 1978)
• George McGinnis: Basketball Superstar (Hastings House 1978)
• James Van DerZee: The Picture Takin’ Man (Dodd, Mead 1979; Africa World Press 1991) – Winner of The Carter G. Woodson Outstanding Merit Award
• Andrew Young: Man with a Mission (Lothrop 1979)
• Gambling: Who Really Wins? (Watts 1979)
• The New Americans: Vietnamese Boat People (Enslow 1980)
• I’m Gonna Make You Love Me: The Story of Diana Ross (Dial 1980)
• Werewolves (Watts 1981)
• Magic: A Biography of Earvin Johnson (Enslow 1982; updated and reissued as Sports Star: Magic Johnson (Enslow 1989)
• The New Americans: Cuban Boat People (Enslow 1982)
• Sugar Ray Leonard (Lothrop 1982; London: Robson  1989)
• Katherine Dunham (Coward, McCann 1982)
• The Guardian Angels (Enslow 1983)
• Lena Horne (Coward, McCann 1983)
• Richard Pryor: A Man and His Madness (Beaufort 1984)
• About Michael Jackson (Enslow 1985)
• Break Dancing (Lerner 1985)
• Diana Ross: Star Supreme (Viking 1985)
• Leaders of the Middle East (Enslow 1985)
• The Statue of Liberty: America’s Proud Lady (Lerner 1986)
• Corazon Aquino: Leader of the Philippines (Enslow 1988)
• Mabel Mercer: A Life (Atheneum 1987)
• Queen of the Blues: A Biography of Dinah Washington (Morrow 1987)
• Winnie Mandela: Life of Struggle (Putnam 1988)
• Bill Cosby: America’s Most Famous Father (Walker 1988)
• Shirley Temple Black: Actress to Ambassador (Viking 1988)
• India Under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi (Enslow 1989)
• Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions (Walker 1991; updated and reissued in paperback 2004)
• Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Scholastic 1991; French Canadian edition, Scholastic Canada, 1992)
• Ella Fitzgerald: A Life Through Jazz (Great Britain: New English Library 1991; Germany: Hannibal 1992; France: Filipacchi 1992; Japan:  Ongaku no Tomo Sha 1993))
• The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot (Scholastic 1992)
• One More River to Cross (Scholastic 1992)
• Amazing Grace: The Story Behind the Song (Millbrook 1992)
• Against All Opposition: Black Explorers in America (Walker 1992; updated and reissued in paperback 2004)
• Colin Powell (Scholastic 1992)
• Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice (Henry Holt 1992)
• I Am Somebody! A Biography of Jesse Jackson (Enslow 1992); revised, updated and republished as Jesse Jackson: Civil Rights Activist (Enslow, 2001)
• Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad (Scholastic 1992)
• I Have a Dream: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Millbrook 1992)
• The Methodist Church (Hippocrene 1992)
• The March on Wasington (HarperCollins 1993) – Winner of The Carter G. Woodson Award 1994
• The Headless Haunt and Other African-American Ghost Stories (HarperCollins 1994)
• The Scottsboro Boys (Henry Holt 1994)
• Freedom Rides (Hyperion 1994)
• Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation (Scholastic 1995)
• The Day Fort Sumter Was Fired On (Scholastic 1995)
• The Harlem Renaissance (Millbrook 1996) – Winner of The Carter G. Woodson Award 1997; Winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor Book 1998
• Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (Walker 1996)
• Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (Hyperion 1997) – A Carter G. Woodson Merit Book, 1998
• Power to the People: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party (Simon & Schuster 1997)
• Spike Lee: By Any Means Necessary (Walker 1997)
• Separate But Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle (Scholastic 1998)
• Black, Blue & Gray: African Americans in the Civil War (Simon & Schuster 1998)
• Moaning Bones: African-American Ghost Stories (Lothrop 1998)
• Black Stars: African-American Entrepreneurs (Wiley 1998)
• Black Stars: African-American Military Heroes (Wiley 1998)
• Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders (Oryx Press 1999)
• The Geography of Hope: Black Exodus from the South after Reconstruction (Millbrook Press 1999)
• One Nation Under a Groove: Rap Music and Its Roots (Hyperion 2000);  British edition,
• The Story of Hip-Hop: From Africa to America, Sugarhill to Eminem (Penguin Books 2002)
• Toni Morrison: The Magic of Words (Millbrook Press 2000)
• One Love, One Heart: A History of Reggae (Hyperion Books for Children 2001)
• Champion: A Biography of Muhammad Ali (Walker & Company 2002); Korean edition, Namuwasup Publishing Co., 2005.
• Toni Morrison: Telling a Tale Untold (Millbrook Press 2002)
• Cecil Poole: A Life in the Law (Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Historical Society 2002) – Winner of the 2004 John and Patricia Beatty Award from the California Library Association
• Black Stars: African Heroes (Wiley 2005)

Series

• Black Theater in America (Crowell 1982)
• Black Music in America:  A History Through its People (Harper & Row  1987) – Winner of TheCarter G. Woodson Award 1988
• Black Dance in America (Harper & Row 1990) – A Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book 1991; reissued 2001 by Welcome Rain Publishers
• Count Your Way Through the Arab World/China/Japan/Russia (Carolrhoda Books 1987) – Winner of The Alabama Library Association Award 1988
• Count Your Way Through Africa/Canada/Korea/Mexico (Carolrhoda Books 1989)
• Count Your Way Through Germany/Italy (Carolrhoda Books 1990)
• Count Your Way Through India/Israel (Carolrhoda Books 1991)
• Count Your Way Through China/Count Your Way Through France/Count Your Way Through Japan/Count Your Way Through Mexico published in a new CD-ROM edition for the sixth grade reading level by Lerner Classroom, a division of Lerner Publishing, 2001

Editorships

• Black Manifesto for Education (Morrow 1973)
• The Filipino Nation: A Concise History of the Philippines (3 vols.; Grolier 1982)
• Hippocrene Great Religions of the World
• The Catholic Church by Barrie Ruth Straus, 1987
• The Baptists by J.M. Stifle and Anne Devereaux Jordan, 1988
• The Seventh-Day Adventists by Anne Devereaux Jordan, 1990
• The Episcopal Church by David Locke, 1992
• Hippocrene African Language Concise Dictionaries, series editor:
• Haitian Creole Concise Dictionary by Dr. Charmant Theodore, 1997
• Twi-English Concise Dictionary by Dr. Paul Kotey, 1997
• Yoruba-English Concise Dictionary by Dr. Olabiyi Yai, 1997
• Black Star Biography Series (John Wiley & Sons, 1998 +)
• Two volumes authored on entrepreneurs and military heroes (see above)
• African American Inventors by Otha Richard Sullivan (1998)
• African American Healers by Clinton Cox (1999)
• African American Women Writers by Brenda Wilkinson (2000)
• African American Musicians by Eleanora E. Tate (2000)
• African-American Teachers by Clinton Cox (2001)
• African-American Women Scientists and Inventors by Otha R. Sullivan (2001)
• Black Stars Biography Series (John Wiley & Sons 2002-2003), author/editor
• Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance
• Black Stars of Colonial and Revolutionary Times
• Black Stars of Civil Rights
• Black Stars of Civil War Times
• Keeping the Faith: African-American Sermons of Liberation (Welcome Rain 2001); paperback edition, Sensei, 2005.

Co-Authorships

• The Psychology of Black Language, with Hugh F. Butts, M.D. (Barnes & Noble 1973); updated and  reissued (Hippocrene 1993)
• The Great American Crazies, with Kathleen Benson and Ellen Inkelis (Condor 1977)
• The Stevie Wonder Scrapbook, with Kathleen Benson (Grosset & Dunlap 1978)
• Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime, with Kathleen Benson (Doubleday 1978; London: Robson 1979; Mexico: Angel Urraza 1979; Stein & Day 1980) – Winner of The ASCAP Deems Taylor Award 1979
• The Quiet Revolution: The Struggle for the Rights of Disabled Americans, with  J.M. Stifle (Crowell 1979)
• The Child Abuse Help Book, with Pat Connolly (Addison-Wesley 1982)
• Donna Summer, with J M Stifle (Atlantic Monthly 1983)
• Nat King Cole: A Personal and Professional Biography, with Kathleen Benson (Stein & Day 1984; Britain/Robeson 1986; Scarborough House 1990; Finland/Art House Oy 2002)
• Lena: A Personal and Professional Biography of Lena Horne, with Kathleen Benson (Stein & Day 1983; Scarborough House 1991)
• Bricktop, with Bricktop (Atheneum 1983) – Named a Book-Across-the-Sea by the English-Speaking Union
• Space Challenger: The Story of Guion Bluford, with Kathleen Benson (Carolrhoda 1984)
• Nat King Cole, with Kathleen Benson (Stein & Day 1984; Scarborough House 1990)
• Double Dutch, with David Walker (Enslow 1985)
• Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson, with N.R. Mitgang (Morrow 1988; London/Robson 2001)
• The Sixties Reader, with Kathleen Benson (Viking 1988)
• Hamp: An Autobiography, with Lionel Hampton (Warner 1989)
• Scatman, with Helen Crothers (Morrow 1991)
• Rosa Parks: My Story, with Rosa Parks (Dial 1992)
• Hippocrene Guide to the Historic Black South, with Joann Biondi (1993)
• Hippocrene Guide to Black New York, with Joann Biondi (1994)
• From Afar to Zulu: A Dictionary of African Cultures, with Joann Biondi (Walker 1995)
• Count Your Way Through Brazil/France/Greece/Ireland, with Kathleen Benson (Carolrhoda 1996)
• I Am Rosa Parks, with Rosa Parks (Dial 1997) – A Carter G. Woodson Award Honor Book 1998
• African Beginnings, with Kathleen Benson (Lothrop 1998)
• Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World, with Kathleen Benson (Lothrop 1999)
• Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890–1940, with Kathleen Benson (Marshall Cavendish 1999)
• Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American History, with Kathleen Benson (Millbrook 2000) – Winner of The Carter G. Woodson Award Honor Book, 2001
• Following Freedom’s Star: The Story of the Underground Railroad, with Kathleen Benson (Marshall Cavendish 2001)
• Conjure Times: Black Magicians in America, with Kathleen Benson (Walker & Company 2001)
• Building a New Land: African Americans in Colonial America, with Kathleen Benson (HarperCollins 2001)
• The House that Jack Built: The Hal Jackson Story, with Hal Jackson (Amistad 2001)

From the website for the Department of English at the University of Florida (March 24, 2011)