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Alex Haley and His Wife Queen
We Tree’s Weekly Genealogy Prompt #27 asks us to visit the graves of local celebrities and talk about their lives. I’ll profile a celebrity not in my local area, but in the local area I am researching.
My maternal ancestors are from a rural, Southwestern county in Tennessee called Hardin County that most folks haven’t heard of unless they’re from there or have been following my post.
Hardin County’s largest city and county seat is Savannah. Many of my family members lived in a suburb called Hooker’s Bend, which is fodder enough for another post.
Alex Haley (the author of Roots) is Savannah’s biggest celebrity and he plays a prominent role in the tourism brochures for the area.
Alex Haley’s Roots in Hardin
Alex Haley grew up in Hening, Tennessee, which is actually several counties over in Lauderdale County. But Alex’s grandparents were prominent and well-known Savannah citizens from the end of the 19th through the early 20th century.
They were Alec/Alex Haley and his wife Queen. They’re also (stated with utter pride) in my family. His name is written in records both ways, but I will call him “Alec” in this post to differentiate between him and his grandson.
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The phenomenon began a few months earlier, with the publication of “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.” Released in the fall of 1976—during America’s Bicentennial—it was an overnight commercial and critical success. The book would spend more than four months on The New York Times bestseller list, sell more than 6 million copies, be translated into more than 35 languages and earn Alex Haley both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Born in 1921 and raised in Ithaca, New York, and Henning, Tennessee, Haley was the son of a homemaker mother and an academic father who taught at universities throughout the South. He spent the summers of his youth at the side of his grandmother, Cynthia Palmer, absorbing stories of his maternal bloodline, including snippets of a presumed-lost African language that had been passed down through the generations. Palmer traced her ancestors to the mid-18th century arrival of the “furthest-back” person in America, an African called “Toby” by his slave owners.
A talented, though indifferent, student, 18-year-old Haley bypassed college, and on the eve of World War II enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard, where he would serve for the next 20 years. He turned to writing, eventually rising to become the Coast Guard’s chief journalist. After leav
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Kunta Kinte
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Biography do Roots novel
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