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2. Alex Haley's Queen - Wikipedia

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   Alex Haley's Queen (also known as Queen) is a 1993 American television miniseries that aired in three installments on February 14, 16, and 18 on CBS. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Queen: The Story of an American Family , by Alex Haley and David Stevens .

3. Queen: The Story of an American Family - Wikipedia

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   Queen: The Story of an American Family is a 1993 partly factual historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. It brought back to the consciousness of many white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation : the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of their fathers.

4. Alex Haley - Wikipedia

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   Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) [1] 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.

5. Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Wikipedia

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   Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. was a friend of Haley's. Years after Haley's death, Gates acknowledged his own doubts about the author's claims: Most of us feel it's highly unlikely that Alex found the village whence his ancestors sprang. Roots is a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship. It was an important event ...

6. Museum of Appalachia honors 'Roots' author Alex Haley: 'He ...

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   Former U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander hands the award for "Heroes of Southern Appalachia" to Alex Haley's grandson, Bill Haley during a celebration of the life of Alex Haley at the Museum of Appalachia ...

7. Roots (1977 miniseries) - Wikipedia

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   A related film, Alex Haley's Queen, is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, who was Alex Haley's paternal grandmother. In 2016, a remake of the original miniseries, with the same name, was commissioned by the History channel and screened by the channel on Memorial Day.

8. Museum renovation, book re-release honor late author Alex Haley

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9. Roots (2016 miniseries) - Wikipedia

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   Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an 18th-century Mandinka man who is enslaved and shipped from the Gambia to the Colony of Virginia and his descendants.