Alex Haley Home and Museum

[thaley50]

well i like this . because this make me wonder about this alex haley and chicken george my dad name was george haley born 1919 but he know no one ... he said his mother died never saw her just his dad donot know his dad also have consuion by last name of johnson. just random thought my

[Tsuruta1]

@lakoleful Just saw something in the later uploads. Someone suggested that it might have been endometriosis. I looked it up on Wikipedia, sounds like that could've have been it.

[Tsuruta1]

@lakoleful Well in the Roots TNG miniseries, Bertha said she was bleeding internally and it couldn't be stopped. So it sounded like intenal hemorraging.

[dakboyyall]

apparently this lady is aloooooot younger than alex. Tom must have been a lot older than his brother lewis.

[Tankweti]

Whether every single syllable of the book was truely uttered by someone is not important. What is VERY important is that Alex gave people hope that they can find their identity and maybe even find their own ancestral village. I work on black genealogy myself and have had some very amazing successes, including reuniting 2 branches of a family lost to each other for 100 years. Now working on their African history. I know that most people have at least a 50% chance of finding their village.

[dakboyyall]

Who's that @ 08:08 is that Tom???

[tc030564]

@dakboyyall beleve it was Will Palmer Alex's grandad

[dakboyyall]

The house wasnt built by Chicken george's grandson, it was built by his grand daughters husband

[iDiAmonHurst]

@dakboyyall kool

[dakboyyall]

The Real Simon and Bertha look like the actors playing simon and bertha in roots the next generations.

[hotcocosk8er]

White is right

[dakboyyall]

@hotcocosk8er go home white was evil back in the day!!!!

[TheFeet1974]

Great Great Story.....Fantastic but yet so sad......Really makes u think...Im from Ireland,we had people here sent to Australia as Slaves many many years ago...Sad what White men done....

[xMASSxDx187x]

where is that graveyard ????

[xMASSxDx187x]

wheres tha grave ... can i find pictures ?

[xMASSxDx187x]

imma go to tha museum when i got to america !!

[xMASSxDx187x]

i luv roots

[jorianhudson29]

I had wondered what happened to Lewis Harvey (Murray) since he was in the first Roots but was not mentioned at all in Roots the Next Generations, Good to see that his family line continued.

[xMASSxDx187x]

@jorianhudson29 did alex haleys line continue ?

[jorianhudson29]

@xMASSxDx187x Yes. He had a son named William and a grandson named William Jr. William Jr. should be in his late 20s or early 30s

[CelestialEmbodiment]

Alex Haley plagiarized Hal Courlander's 1967 novel "The African" and simply called it "Roots."

[tn342]

What a beautiful home. I love old houses with their sense of history and character. I'd be happy to live in it now let alone 90 years ago.

[Jeorney]

Shame that Alex Haley's book "Roots" involved plagarism from "The African" by Harold Courlander. Also his claim to be a descendant of Kunta Kinte is also proved to be innacurate according to historians. Also it obscured the fact that some African tribes were selling slaves from other tribes. Although that does not excuse the buyers part in those horrible transactions either.

[oklindaa]

Wow what a journey...turned to become a wonderful life after all

[k1shaw2]

Alex Haley did admitt that his book was faction, meaning that it wasn't all true. But Alex did in fact trace his family ROOTS back to Africa. There was actually a slave captured named Kunta Kinta, later named Toby, that had daughter named Kizzy, who had a son named George, who had host of children, and of those children had a son named Tom Murray, who had a host of children also, but of those children had a daughter named Cynthia, who had Bertha, who gave birth to Alex! Those are the facts!

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@k1shaw2

I tend to believe the words coming out of the mouths of Haley's own FAMILY, rather than anyone else. They ought to know better about the history of their own lineage, rather than the claptrap of random strangers and their claims of "innacuracy".

[thaley50]

@k1shaw2 what this amaze me because my dad name was george haley he would been 92 yrs he never knew his mom just his dad they arrive to baltimore in this house .. now i wonder but i guess i not importnat to the alex haley trait ... my dad do look like that alex haley

[a9damson1]

I Just love this, so sad but good at the same time, to see the real people roots came from, and how the likeness was done so well for the film.

[mrlowdangle]

roots is completely untrue, he stole and made up most of the book

[CrysallisJones]

@mrlowdangle two words. . . . PROVE IT.

[mrlowdangle]

@CrysallisJones @CrysallisJones i dont need to,its already proven ..google it

even his wikipedia page has a whole section called 'Plagiarism and other criticism'

[k1shaw2]

@mrlowdangle Roots is not completely untrue. Alex had the marriage, birth, and death certificates, of his ancestors. Now true enough, we don't know how Kunta did act when he was captured, or exactly what events took place on his voyage states. Or if the "master" did cheat on his wife! Or if another,slave girl did pretend to seduce "Toby" to throw off the oversear! But of course if you only read what is placed on the interenet, you would never know that. :)

[FreonRose]

i live in henning lol. there's a trail named after chicken george. I just moved there about 4 years ago so i don't know much about the town history but its a nice town. anyone interested in the museum should definatly come check it out.

[mary5674]

This is so cool I love genealogy

[hercules520]

2 bad he died...... am so disa pointed kunta didnt run when he had the chance 2 run away with the guy that was playing the drum

[Lennon4life1968]

It's moving that I knew every name that Beverly Johnson mentioned (only from reading the book many many times).

[md8671]

Who are the folks at 8:06 and 8:12?

[Orangetitanfan]

I was just through there today. I get over that way sometimes with my job. I will stop the next time I am over there! Very interesting.

[DIRTYTORQUE]

Chicken George.

inspired.

[ThePregnancySlaves]

Alex Haley, author of "Roots," was sued & lost to the white author Hal Courlander for Hailey's deliberate plagiarism of Courlander's 1967 novel: "The African."

[yvessaintlaurent88]

I want to go visit that house! I want to see Chicken George's grave too!

[hercules520]

ya man george was the coolest one of all... he was the first free man in america in his family

[saleta]

i use to travel in west africa and guinea and always have a think for alex haley family.

[tunkara]

@saleta ..that is cool...Alex Haley's root is from Gambia

[saleta]

awesome video

i 've read the book and have the whole movie. it was a great family.

[kimmy1984]

I got a chance to visit the museum this month.

[IWannaBeOnOprah]

Whatever happened to the lumber company?

[chopinDC]

Simon Haley sold it before he became a professor.

[k1shaw2]

@IWannaBeOnOprah The lumber company is still in Henning, and running under a different name. Most of it has been burned down, but they are still operating off the land!