Summary
By Al Martinez
WHENEVER I let my mind drift back through the highlights of a long career for purposes of a special paper or a speech, I invariably think of Alex Haley. More than just a friend for 40 years, with the publication of "Roots" and the television mini- series that followed, he became racial historian to African- Americans all across the land and the reason the rest of us began thinking of our own ancestry.See the full content of this document
Extract
Haley Gave Us 'Roots,' but Paid a Price
But when he died 18 years ago it was under a cloud of plagiarism and poor scholarship, with demands that a special Pulitzer be returned and the book that had encompassed 12 years of research here and in ...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
