Jim Wooten

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Jim Wooten is a journalist for ABC News and an author. [1] He won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2005 for We Are All the Same. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "We Are All the Same". Penguin. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  2. "2005: "Perilous Times", by Jeffrey Stone; and "We Are All the Same", by Jim Wooten". Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Archived from the original on 21 November 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  3. Nalkur, Priya G. "Editor's Review: We Are All the Same by Jim Wooten". Harvard Educational Press. Retrieved 21 November 2013.