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May 31, 2016 · Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alex Haley, it told the story of an African American family from colonialism to reconstruction and literally brought the discussion...
Aug 12, 2021 · Alex Haley’s Roots displayed the brutal realities of slavery to more than 100 million Americans. The book and mini-series also made a bold claim: that Haley was the first Black American to...
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Frederick Douglass, in his 1855 book, My Bondage and My Freedom, says, “Genealogical trees do not flourish among slaves.” In the first chapter of his slave narrative, published a decade earlier, he tells us twice within a few paragraphs of the “whisper” that his father was also his master, but he didn’t know for sure, and that haunted him. One of t...
My PBS series, Finding Your Roots, which I named in homage to the title of Alex Haley’s book, can trace its own roots to that family tree I crafted with my parents’ help back in July 1960 and to a letter I received 40 years later from a brilliant African American geneticist named Dr. Rick Kittles. “Dear Dr. Gates,” he wrote, “have you ever watched ...
Roots continues to be important because we are a nation of immigrants. Even Native Americans came here from somewhere else; they walked across the Bering Strait some 15,000 years ago. Our African ancestors, of course, did not emigrate here willingly—after all, none of our ancestors arrived on the Mayflower—and as enslaved human beings, they were un...
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Feb 9, 2017 · Roots of the problem: the controversial history of Alex Haley's book. Haley’s influential family saga about 18th century slavery is back on TV, but its literary reputation is still tarnished by...
- John Dugdale
May 30, 2016 · The original Roots and author Alex Haley have faced controversy over the years. Haley, who died in 1992, settled a lawsuit by an author who accused him of plagiarizing parts of Roots.
- Eric Deggans
May 20, 2023 · Local historians and Black leaders are reexamining the legacy of Alex Haley after a new book revealed discrepancies in an interview the author published with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in...
Feb 27, 2017 · Alex Haley was sued by two authors claiming plagiarism – one he settled for more than $600,000 dollars – and many historians and genealogists have questioned the validity of his story.
