Famous people: Alex Haley

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Hello this is my report on Alex Haley Writer of Roots

He was born on August 11 1921, in Ithaca New York. He spent his first five years in Henning Tennessee he was raised with his two younger brothers’. His family was African American mixed with Irish and Cherokee. He Enlisted as a mess boy and then became a petty officer third class in the rate of mess attendance.  He served as a ships cook. During war Alex Haley thought himself how to write stories. After World War 2 Haley was able to talk to the coast guard to allow him to transfer into the field of journalism. He did his first interview for playboy Magazine. In the interview Davis candidly spoke about his feelings on racism. That lead played a big part on his magazine for Martin Luther king Jr. One of Haley’s most famous interviews was a 1963 interview for playboy, which led to their collaboration on the activist’s biography. The biography of Malcolm X based on the interviews conducted shortly before Malcolm’s death. In 1975 Haley published Roots: a Story of an American Family. A novel about his family History. He started the whole story with Knuta Kinte kidnapped in Gambia 1767.Haley claimed to be a seventh generation of Kunta Kinte. Haley was briefly a winter resident at Hamilton college in Clinton. He began to write roots there. Many local people remember Haley fondly. Haley said the most emotional moment of his life was on September 29, 1967 when he stood in Annapolis Maryland where his ancestor had arrived 200 years before.

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