Alex Haley’s Better Day
(Alex Haley’s Better Day is from Alex Haley’s commencement speech he delivered to an audience in Alumnae Hall at Brown University on May 26, 1984, which was published in the…
Aboard The African Star By Alex Haley
After working on the book for more than a decade, Haley was stuck—and desperate I just love to get out in the ocean. You are really out there, thinking in…
A Word From Alex Haley
Published in The Library Development Review, Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1990 / 1991 by James B. Lloyd (Editor) and Laura C. Simic (Assistant Editor). Within The Library Development Review of 1990-1991, James…
A Visit To The Big East Coast Boot Camp At Cape May, New Jersey (1951)
The Birthplace of The U.S. Coast Guard Enlisted Corps Training Center Cape May is the fifth largest base in the Coast Guard and the sole accession point for the entire…
A New Audience For Radio (February 1956)
Black radio programs throughout the South owed much of their success to the on-air personalities or disk jockeys hired to promote particular stations and sponsors. “Of course we promote those…
A Black American’s Search For His Ancestral African (1976)
When I was a little boy of about five, I was living with my recently widowed Grandma in Henning, Tenn. Each spring, to fill the void of Grandpa’s absence, she…