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On and off around the honeysuckle vines, and every evening I can As Haley recalled: "The time would be just about as theĭusk was deepening into the night, with the lightning bugs flickering "Kin-tay" that he was brought by slave-ship to the New World and named He had always said he was an African, called The family genealogy to Haley's great-great-great-great-grandfatherįrom the 18th century. Stories told by his maternal grandmother, Cynthia Palmer, who traced After finishing his degree, he worked as aĬollege teacher throughout the South. When he died of a heart attack, Haley'sįather left school temporarily and took over the business, which was on The family moved in 1921 to the small town of Henning, Simon Haley, who was left with threeĬhildren, remarried two years later one of his teaching colleagues, Haley, a teacher, and the former Bertha George Palmer, also a teacher "The third people," said Omoro, "are those waiting to be born."Īlex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, the son of Simon Alexander
"And the third people – who are they?" asked Kunta. First were those you could see – walking around,Įating, sleeping, and working. You get down to the bottom, beneath these man-imposed differences." He said that three groups of people lived Is that it touches the pulse of how alike we human beings are when Study of mythmaking: "What Roots gets at in whatever form, The book wasĪdapted to television series, and woke up an interest in genealogy, Generations, starting from his ancestor, Kunta Kinte. In this work,Īlex Haley traced his ancestry back to Africa and covered seven American
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪmerican biographer, scriptwriter, and novelist, whoseĪ publishing phenomenon and international bestseller.
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