The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, July 1st, 2005
James S. Haskins, professor of English at the University of Florida, died this summer from emphysema at his home in New York City. He was 63 years old.
Professor Haskins was the author of more than 100 books on black history, many of them geared toward a young audience. A native of Demopolis, Alabama, Haskins spent his formative years in the black neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston. He returned to the South to enroll at Alabama State University, the historically black institution in Montgomery. But there Haskins was labeled an "outside rablerouser" by university administrators. He was expelled...
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