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Nov 9, 2009 · Alex Haley was a writer known for depicting the struggles of African Americans. His famous books include Roots, The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Queen.
Feb 10, 1992 · On February 10, 1992, Alex Haley died of a heart attack in Seattle. He was scheduled to speak that day at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base at Bremerton, Washington, 15 miles from Seattle. After a funeral service in Memphis, he was buried in the front yard of his grandparents’ home in Henning.
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 six...
Feb 11, 2016 · Alex Haley. (Credit: Fred Mott/Getty Images) Born in 1921 and raised in Ithaca, New York, and Henning, Tennessee, Haley was the son of a homemaker mother and an academic father who taught at...
— Alex Haley As “the father of popular genealogy,” his timeless novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family , illuminates and humanizes America’s era of slavery and ultimately reflects the personal mantra visible in all his work: “In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”
Feb 4, 2022 · American writer Alex Haley, author of the book “Roots.” (Fred Mott/Getty Images) 6 min. 93. In March 1960, a rookie reporter published a magazine article that would spark a historic shift in...
Roots, a novel by Alex Haley, was published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley.
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