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Haley's boyhood home at Henning, Tennessee, in 2007. Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921, and was the eldest of three brothers (the other two being George and Julius) and a half-sister (from his father's second marriage).
The Langston Hughes Library is a private non-circulating library designed by American architect Maya Lin, and located on the Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee.It contains a 5,000-volume reference collection focusing on works by African-American authors and illustrators, and books focused on the Black experience.
Pulitzer Prize-winning "Roots" author Alex Haley, who died in 19XX, lived in Clinton. The event is March 1. Museum of Appalachia to honor Alex Haley at 'Heroes of Southern Appalachia' event
Haley's friend Lamar Alexander, former Tennessee governor, U.S. senator and education secretary, presented the award to the late author's grandson Bill Haley and nephew Chris Haley March 1 in a ...
In the 1980s, Alex Haley visited the museum, and immediately decided to move to East Tennessee (he bought the farm across the street from the museum). Haley was inspired by the museum's Steve Parkey exhibit, and made plans to write a novel about this African-American blacksmith from Southern Appalachia. [ 6 ]
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Alex Haley House and Museum State Historic Site is one of the Tennessee Historical Commission's state-owned historic sites and is located in Henning, Tennessee, United States. It is open to the public and partially funded by an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission.
Palmerstown, U.S.A. [2] (shortened to Palmerstown in March 1981) [3] is a television drama series that aired on CBS from March 20, 1980 to June 9, 1981. [4] It was created by Norman Lear and Alex Haley, [1] [3] whose childhood was the basis for the series. [5]