Haley, Alex (1921-1992)
In 1976, author Alex Haley did something no black person had been able to do before: he got Americans to view history from a black perspective. The vehicle he used was Roots: T...
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Biography EssayAlex Haley's reputation in the literary world rests upon his much-acclaimed historical novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). Haley's tracing of his African-American ance...
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Alex Haley (1921-1992) is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977 almost two million hardcover copies of the book had been sold and 130 million people had ...
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Alex Haley was a journalist, essayist, and historical novelist, but he is best known for writing the benchmark 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which was celebrated as an affirmation ...
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Alex Haley's reputation in the literary world rests upon his much-acclaimed historical novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). Haley's tracing of his Afro-American ancestry back to a tin...
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Critical Essay by Adam David Miller
For long we have been fighting the fiction that we maintained nothing of what we brought over from Africa, that we created nothing of cultural value in the South; ...
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Maryland lawmakers approved an apology Monday for the state's role in the slave trade, expressing "profound regret" that it once "trafficked in human flesh."Maryland follows Virginia in issuing a f...
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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2007. There are 342 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 23, 1968, North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging its crew w...
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Every time Bettye Kearse steps foot on former President James Madison's plantation, she feels like she's coming home.She has spent much of her adult life wondering about her family's saying, one pa...
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While U.S. and NATO forces prepare to fight a resurgent enemy in Afghanistan, a different campaign is being waged to gain the trust of the nation's war-ravaged people."Afghanistan: The Other War," ...
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“I feel vindicated,” Philip Nobile said.
It was the afternoon of April 14, two days after CBS had dumped Don Imus from the radio, and Mr. Nobile, 65, was at home in Cobble Hill. Long b...
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If you drive six miles southwest of Anniston, Ala., you'll pass the spot where a bus was bombed in 1961 and the passengers - civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders - were beaten by a mob.Th...
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Selected home-video releases:"Letters From Iwo Jima," "Flags of Our Fathers"Clint Eastwood delivers an unparalleled film achievement with these bookend films that came out just two months apart las...
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Two locally filmed shows took top series honors at last night's Emmy Awards.
'The Sopranos' took home the Best Drama award, and creator David Chase and director Alan Taylor won for writing and di...
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Haley, Alex (1921-1992)
Alex Haley
Alex Haley
Alex(ander) (Murray Palmer) Haley
Critical Essay by Adam David Miller
Maryland apologizes for slavery
