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Simon Alexander Haley (March 8, 1892 – August 19, 1973) was a professor of agriculture and father of writer Alex Haley. He was born in Savannah, Tennessee, to farmer Alexander "Alec" Haley and his wife Queen (Davy) Haley (née Jackson). Both his parents were enslaved from birth, and caucasian enslavers apparently fathered both.
Nov 11, 1992 · Simon, the son of a sharecropper and former slave, earned a master's degree from Cornell University and became a college professor. Simon's wife, Bertha, died when Alex was a little boy.
Simon Alexander Haley (March 8, 1892 – August 19, 1973) was a professor of agriculture and father of writer Alex Haley. He was born in Savannah, Tennessee, to farmer Alexander "Alec" Haley and his wife Queen (Davy) Haley (née Jackson).
- 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.
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On 1 june 1900 in Savannah, Hardin, Tennessee. Lived Simon Haley, age 8. He was living with his parents Alec, age 55 and Queen, age 42. He had four siblings. On 2 May 1910 in Civil District 4, Hardin, Tennessee. He was attending school at age 17 and also working as a laborer on a general farm, but had been out of work for last five weeks. In 1920, ...
Simon A Haley enlisted into the army on 26 or 28 Apr 1918.He was discharged from the army on 19 Mar 1919.
In 1940, Simon Haley age 48 was living with his son george while living in Vaugine Township, Jefferson, Arkansas
He was buried on 27 Aug 1973, at the Little Rock National Cemetery, in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA. The gravestone is located in Section 16, site 1429.
- Male
- March 8, 1892
- Bertha George (Palmer) Haley
- August 19, 1973
Cynthia and Will Palmer have a daughter, Bertha, who marries Simon Alexander Haley at a wedding that everyone in town—black and white—attends. Bertha and Simon quickly surprise Cynthia and Will with a son, Alex, who will grow up to write Roots .
professor writer. Simon Alexander Haley was a professor of agriculture, and father of writer Alex Haley. Background. He was born in Savannah, Tennessee to farmer Alec Haley and his wife Queen (Davy) Haley. Education. Cornell University; Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Career.
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