![]() ![]() It was called a novel based on one of Alex Haley's maternal lines, that family going back to his first ancestor to step foot on America, a man called Kunte Kinte kidnapped from The Gambia in Africa in 1767 and brought to the New World to the Maryland colony. In 1976 Haley published a novel "Roots:An American Family". So in 1939 Alex joined the US Coast Guard and had a successful 20 year career there. Then he told his parents he was dropping out of college so his father convinced Alex to join the military once he turned 18. It is a horrible way to be connected as a cousin(and nothing I am proud of)but you have to understand American history(particularly in the South in this case)and the flawed people who inhabited this part of the country and the times, and whom we come from.Īt age 15 Alex was enrolled in Alcorn State in MS and the next year went on to matriculate at Elizabeth City State College in NC. Haley's father was Simon Haley, a professor at Alabama A & M University and Simon's mother, Bertha George Palmer Haley was a well read woman who encouraged her children to learn.Īlex Haley and I share a cousin connection through his maternal side. His family lived in Henning Tennessee, where his mother was from, for a time before returning to Ithaca NY. ![]() Alexander Haley was born in Ithaca, New York in 1921. ![]()
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