Alex Haley Home and Museum

The small community of Henning, Tennessee has a big claim to fame it was the boyhood home of Alex Haley, the author of ROOTS. We visit the Alex Haley Home and Museum.

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• Tennessee
• Roots

[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!

[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.

[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

[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.

[iDiAmonHurst]

@dakboyyall kool



[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]

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

[dakboyyall]

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