Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an adolescent, and transported to North America. I
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Historical marker in front of Alex Haley's boyhood home in Henning, Tennessee (2007)
Alex Haley's boyhood home. His grave is beside the house.
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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired i
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
…Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an adolescent, and transported to North America. It explores his life and…
Haley in 1980
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, first edition (1965)