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- Alex Haley served in the U.S. Coast Guard for two decades before pursuing a career as a writer. He eventually helmed a series of interviews for Playboy magazine and later co-authored The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The following decade, Haley made history with his book Roots, chronicling his family line from Gambia to the enslaved-holding South.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Black History. Alex Haley was a writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted generations of African American lives. He is widely known for 'Roots' and...
- Haley’s Notable Service Awards And Accomplishments. Haley’s awards and decorations from the U.S. Coast Guard include the American Defense Service Medal (with “Sea” clasp), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal (with 1 silver and 1 bronze service star), Korean Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal and the Coast Guard Expert Marksmanship Medal.
- Reader’s Digest And Playboy Magazine. After retiring from the Coast Guard, in 1959, after twenty years of military service, Haley continued as a journalist, first as a writer and senior editor at Reader’s Digest—a monthly general interest family magazine.
- Malcolm X. One of Haley’s most famous interviews was the Malcolm X Interview (1963) for Playboy, which led to their collaboration on the activist’s autobiography, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, based on interviews conducted shortly before Malcolm’s death (and with an epilogue).
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Pursuing the few slender clues of oral family history told him by his maternal grandmother in Henning, Tennessee, Haley spent the next twelve years traveling three continents tracking his maternal family back to a Mandingo youth, named Kunta Kinte, who was kidnapped into slavery from the small village of Juffure, in The Gambia, West Africa.
Dec 17, 2021 · Dec. 17, 2021. In 1959, long before his books “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and “Roots” made him famous, an aspiring writer named Alex Haley, fresh out of the Coast Guard, wrote to...
Major Work. Alex Haley is best remembered as the author of the seminal historical novel, ‘Roots: The Saga of an American Family’. The book not only made him a much acclaimed author in world literature, but also spurred an interest in genealogy among Americans of different ethnicities.
Feb 4, 2022 · By Dave Kindy. February 4, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. EST. American writer Alex Haley, author of the book “Roots.” (Fred Mott/Getty Images) In March 1960, a rookie reporter published a magazine article...
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Mar 8, 2017 · Alex Haley’s work as a writer documented the experiences of Black Americans from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade through the modern Civil Rights Movement. Assisting socio-political leader Malcolm X write The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Haley’s prominence as a writer rose.
Historical, Rare Books — Icon Spotlight by Heritage Editorial. It has been 38 years since Alex Haley published Roots in 1976. Michael Eric Dyson summed it up well in the 2006 introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition of Roots: “Haley’s monumental achievement helped convince the nation that the black story is the American story.”
