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Alex Haley: A Biography

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, an African American writer, gained fame with his book 'Roots: The Saga of an American Family,' in which he traced the history of his own family over two hundred years.

Additionally, he co-authored 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' the renowned civil rights activist who was assassinated in Haley was born on August 11, , in Ithaca, New York. He was the eldest child in his family and lived in Henning, Tennessee, until the age of five, when he returned to Ithaca.

Haley's father, Simon Haley, was an agronomy professor at Cornell University and a World War I veteran. Alex always spoke with great pride about his father and the obstacles he had to overcome due to racism.

At the age of fifteen, Alex Haley enrolled as a student at Alcorn State University, the first black university in th