[Wikipedia] Alex Haley House and Museum
Alex Haley House and Museum State Historic Site is one of the Tennessee Historical Commission's state-owned historic sites and is located in Henning, Tennessee, United States. It is open to the public and partially funded by an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission. It was originally known as W. E. Palmer House and was the boyhood home of author Alex Haley. He was buried on the grounds. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In 2010, the site debuted the state-funded Alex Haley Museum and Interpretive Center which features a museum and interpretive center (designed by architect Louis Pounders) with exhibitions covering Haley's life.
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The Alex Haley Museum and Interpretive Center was dedicated on Friday, 13 August, 2010. The Interpretive Center is located behind Mr. Haley's boyhood home in Henning, Tennessee.
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ALEX HALEY. THE STORY OF ROOTS . ALL IMAGES ARE MADE ON THE BIG SCREEN OF YOUR IMAGINATION.
ALEX HALEY
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.
Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the subject, a major African-American leader.
He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as Queen: The Story of an American Family. It was adapted as a film, Alex Haley's Queen, released in 1992.
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The house, called Twin Oaks, now serves as the Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center. The property was purchased by the State of Maryland and Anne Arundel County in 1995, then deeded to Highland Beach to be used as a memorial to Douglass. The museum includes exhibits and papers on Douglass' life and work and can be toured by appointment. Twin Oaks also includes displays and information on the history of Highland Beach. Some of the prominent blacks who were guests of the Douglass family, or who built their own houses at Highland Beach, include Booker T. Washington, Alex Haley, W.E.B. DuBois and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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For African-descended people, the loss of land began with their being torn from their African homelands and forced to work on other people’s land as an enslaved labor force. With Emancipation, they were promised “40 acres and a mule” - land, and the means to work it.
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Today in the United States, with its overwhelmingly urban population, wealth is still largely determined by the ownership of land: real estate. Owning your own house, on your own land, is the single biggest factor in accumulating wealth and passing it down to one’s descendants - and one of the major reasons for the difference in wealth between those descended from Europe and those descended from Africa.
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For the three decades before the end of the Civil War, the Shockoe Bottom business district in Richmond, Virginia, was the center of the U.S. domestic slave trade. So many men, women and children were bought and sold here that today the majority of African-Americans could trace some ancestry to this site.
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