Like his father before him, William Alex Haley stood on the Annapolis City Dock yesterday, stared out across the sparkling water, and fell silent. He had just spent the morning talking about ...

Alex Haley’s Roots captured the attention of America as no other miniseries has. ... He decided he had to do a book on his father’s side of the family.

Alex Haley’s landmark book, Roots, began in Reader’s Digest, ... when I interviewed my parents and drew up my first family tree on the very day after we buried my father’s father.

Alex Haley Museum • Group tours are available for groups of 15 or more. To schedule a group tour, call the museum at (731) 738-2240 or email the museum at [email protected] ...

In 2007, Haley swabbed cells from inside his cheek and sent them off to see whether DNA on his Y chromosome, which, like last names, is passed from father to son, matched any of the more than ...

In 1939, after rejecting his professorial father's ideal of an education, Haley (by now, calling himself "Alex") joined the Coast Guard. Because of racial mores of the time, few onboard jobs were ...

“The father of modern genealogy,” Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, was born in Ithaca, New York, on Aug. 11, 1921. The late writer of two of the most significant works related to African … ...

The late Alex Haley, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” revisits this era in “Queen,” a three-part CBS mini-series based on his 16-hour oral ...

William Alexander Haley Sr. — son of “Roots” author, Alex Haley, who traced the lineage of an Alamance County family as part of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — died Monday. William Haley worked for ...