Book Awards & Distinctions
for James Haskins
24 Total Book Awards
James Van DerZee: The Picture-Takin' Man (2)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1980
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement (2)
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2007
Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2007
African Beginnings (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998
Andrew Young: Man with a Mission (1)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1980
Barbara Jordan (1)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1978
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (1)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1998
Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People (1)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1991
Black Music in America: A History Through Its People (1)
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 1988
Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World (1)
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2024
Commended, 2000
Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American History (1)
Count Your Way Through Iran (1)
Middle East Book Award, 2000-2023
Honor, 2007
Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights (1)
The Geography of Hope: Black Exodus from the South After Reconstruction (1)
Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2000
The Harlem Renaissance (1)
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 1997
I Am Rosa Parks (1)
Lena Horne (1)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Honor, 1984
The March on Washington (1)
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 1994
Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions (1)
The Rise of Jim Crow (1)
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2009
Rosa Parks: My Story (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1992
The Story of Stevie Wonder (1)
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2024
Author Winner, 1977