found: His Diary of a Harlem schoolteacher, 1969.
found: The long struggle, c1976:t.p. (Jim Haskins)
found: Mr. Bojangles, 2000, c1998:t.p. (Jim Haskins) p. 4 of cover (James Haskins; expert on African-American cultural history; prof. at Univ. of Fla.; lives in Gainesville and New York City)
found: New York times WWW site, July 12, 2005(in obituary published July 11: James Haskins; b. James S. Haskins, Sept. 19, 1941, Demopolis, Ala.; d. Wednesday [July 6, 2005], Manhattan, aged 63; an educator who in seeking to make up for the dearth of children's books on Black historical figures ultimately became one of America's most prolific children's book authors)
found: OCLC, Feb. 8, 2010(hdgs.: Haskins, James, 1941- ; Haskins, James, 1941-2005; Haskins, James S.; Haskins, James S., 1941- )
found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Haskins, James S.; educator, biographer, children's book writer / illustrator, book editor / publisher, essayist, literary critic, diarist; born 19 September 1941 in Demopolis, Alabama, United States; attended Alabama State University, transferred to Georgetown in Washington, D.C., on a scholarship and received B.S. in Psychology in 1960; reenrolled in Alabama State, and earned B.A. in History two years later; master's in Social Psychology from New Mexico University; visiting lecturer at New York's New School for Social Research and SUNY New Paltz, Purdue University; associate professor at Staten Island Community College; in 1994, won the Washington, DC, Children's Book Guild Award; died 06 July 2005 in New York, New York, United States)