Alex Haley

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title: Alex Haley
text: 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 it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965,
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description: American writer (1921–1992)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley
date created: 2002-09-30T16:41:44Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T16:22:09Z
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