The Washington Post, February 11th, 1992
"EARLY IN the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte." And thus began the 1974 epic "Roots," a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about the family ancestry of author Alex Haley. "Roots" was quickly transformed into a symbolic chronicle of the odyssey of African Americans from the continent of Africa to a land not of their choosing. Alex Haley, a descendant of Kunta Kinte - the 1750 baby boy and Mr. Haley's six times removed grandfather - died yesterday at the age of 70. "Roots" sold in the m...
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