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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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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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'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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Haley, Alex (1921-1992)
Alex Haley
Alex Haley
Alex(ander) (Murray Palmer) Haley
