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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.
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).
Erle P. Halliburton, the founder of Halliburton Company (the world's second largest oil field service company), was born in Henning. Alex Haley, author, best known for Roots, winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and acclaimed television miniseries; Henning was his boyhood home; Jim Hickman, Major League Baseball outfielder, 1962–74
Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries based on the last seven chapters of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family.First aired on ABC in February 1979, it is a sequel to the 1977 Roots miniseries, tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee, from 1882 to 1967.
Historical marker in front of Alex Haley's boyhood home in Henning, Tennessee (2007) Published in October 1976 amid significant advance expectations, [4] Roots was immediately successful, garnering a slew of positive reviews [5] [6] and debuting at number five of The New York Times Best Seller list. (The Times classified it as non-fiction). [7]
The Tennessee Historical ... 1985-1990; Robert Corlew (Murfreesboro) 1990-1997; Ward DeWitt, Jr ... West Tennessee Alex Haley Home State Historic Site, Henning The ...
George Williford Boyce Haley (August 28, 1925 – May 13, 2015) was an American attorney, diplomat and policy expert who served under seven presidential administrations. He was one of two younger brothers to the Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Haley .
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the town of Henning, Tennessee. Pages in category "People from Henning, Tennessee" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.