Alex Haley Now and Forever
As our intention is to document and perserve the legacy of Alex Haley, we invite you to explore our extensive collection of Text Interviews, and Audio Interviews. Our Articles Page and Forewords Page has many personal articles, essays, forewords and introductions. Said to have “walked the walk and talked the talk” and characterized by his slow, honeyed voice, he is one of America’s greatest oral and written storytellers.
“I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.”
“I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.”
As “the father of popular genealogy,” his timeless novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, illuminates and humanizes America’s era of slavery and ultimately reflects the personal mantra visible in all his work: “In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”
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Experience The Vision
We also encourage you to SEE for yourself. Visit The Alex Haley House Museum in Henning, Tennessee • The Alex Haley Memorial in Annapolis, Maryland • Haley Heritage Square in Knoxville, Tennessee • Alex Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee.
Our Mission
It is our Mission to spread Haley’s vision for all to know their heritage. “In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage—to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.”
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