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George Lea – son to Kizzy and Tom Lea, he is called "Chicken George" Matilda – George's wife as an adult; Tom Murray – son of Chicken George and Matilda; Cynthia – the youngest of Tom's and Irene's eight children (granddaughter of Chicken George) Bertha – one of Cynthia's children; the mother of Alex Haley
In the Gambia, West Africa, in 1750, Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte, a Mandinka warrior, and his wife Binta.He is raised in a Muslim family. [5] [6] When Kunta reaches the age of 15, he and other boys undergo a semi-secretive tribal rite of passage, under the Kintango, which includes wrestling, circumcision, philosophy, war-craft, and hunting skills.
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). Haley lived with his family in Henning, Tennessee , before returning to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old.
Chicken George may refer to: An ancestor of Alex Haley, popularized both in the book and TV miniseries Roots; Chicken George (politics), the name for a series of costumed men who shadowed George H. W. Bush during the 1992 U.S. presidential election; Chicken George (restaurant chain), a former fast food restaurant chain based in Baltimore ...
Museum of Appalachia President Lindsey Meyer Gallaher, the late founder John Rice Irwin's granddaughter, speaks during a celebration of the life of Alex Haley for the Heroes of Southern Appalachia ...
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.
A musician who elevated spinning records to an art form, Jeffrey Henry (aka DJ Chicken George) succumbed to a rare form of cancer at age 50.
Kunta Kinte was based on family oral tradition accounts of one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1767, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots is a mixture of fact and fiction. [1]