Word: alex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elementary school, our class was given an assignment to trace our ancestors to their country of origin. I could not do it. At that time it was hard for me to understand why I was the only student not able to complete the assignment. I commend Alex Haley for his accomplishment and only wish that I could have beaten...
What they were talking about was ABC's epic dramatization of Alex Haley's book Roots. For eight consecutive nights, tens of millions of Americans were riveted by Haley's story of his family's passage from an ancestral home in Africa to slavery in America and, finally, to freedom. Along the way, Americans of both races discovered that they share a common heritage, however brutal; that the ties that link them to their ancestors also bind them to each other. Thus, with the final episode, Roots was no longer just a bestselling book and a boffo TV production...
...sixth episode, when Kizzy explained to her son Chicken George why she could not marry her lover, Sam. "Sam wasn't like us," she says. "Nobody ever told him where he come from. So he didn't have a dream of where he ought to be goin'." Because of Alex Haley's search, countless American blacks now know, or are trying to find out. Michigan Congressman Charles Diggs told Conyers that "now he understands who he is; now he understands what his father used to talk about." Added Conyers: "You can't begin to do anything in life until...
...been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this." In the fashionable Los Angeles community of Cheviot Hills, every mail brings bulging sacks of letters to Alex Haley?all of it evidence of the astonishing impact produced by his saga of a black family's tortuous trail to freedom. Haley thinks he knows why Roots touched all America. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent William Marmon, he explained his own theory of the Roots phenomenon and told how he came to write the book...
...this country," says Alex Haley, "we are young, brash and technologically oriented. We are all trying to build machines so that we can push a button and get things done a millisecond faster. But as a consequence, we are drawing away from one of the most priceless things we have?where we came from and how we got to be where we are. The young are drawing away from older people...