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2. Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Wikipedia

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   LC Class. E185.97.H24 A33. 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, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America. It explores his life and those of his descendants in the United States, down to Haley.

3. Alex Haley - Wikipedia

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   Rank. Chief Petty Officer. Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) [ 1] 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 it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.

4. Kunta Kinte - Wikipedia

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   Tom (great-grandson) Kunta Kinte ( / ˈkuːntɑː ˈkɪnteɪ / KOON-tah KIN-tay; c. 1750 – c. 1822) is a fictional character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. Kunta Kinte was based on one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1750, enslaved, and taken to America where he ...

5. Museum of Appalachia honors 'Roots' author Alex Haley: 'He ...

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   Chris Haley, Alex Haley's nephew, speaks during a celebration of the life of Alex Haley for the Heroes of Southern Appalachia at the Museum of Appalachia on Friday, March 1, 2024.

6. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The Lasting Impact of Alex Haley’s “Roots”

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   Alex Haley’s landmark book began in Reader’s Digest, where he worked as a senior editor. Its impact is still being felt today. The post Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The Lasting Impact of Alex Haley ...

7. Roots (2016 miniseries) - Wikipedia

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   June 2, 2016. ( 2016-06-02) Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley 's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an African man who is shipped to North America as a slave and his descendants.

8. Queen: The Story of an American Family - Wikipedia

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   Print. Queen: The Story of an American Family is a 1993 partly factual historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens . It brought back to the consciousness of many white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation: the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of their fathers.

9. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs bill making the Aitken Bible an ...

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   The Aitken Bible, along with nine other works, including George Washington's "Farewell Address" and Alex Haley's "Roots," became Tennessee's first officially-designated state books under ...