Alex Haley wrote “The Autobiography ... providing information for the book’s stirring early chapters about his inner-city childhood and years on the street as a hustler. The men became friends.

Alex Haley wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm ... He slowly opened up, providing information for the stirring early chapters about his urban childhood and years on the street as a hustler.

Now, on the centenary of his birth, a former student recalls Haley’s class. Alex Haley in 1977 ... his lectures with vivid anecdotes from his early days as a writer. He proudly described ...

HENNING, TENN. - Fred Montgomery, the childhood friend of Roots author Alex Haley and the first black mayor of this rural west Tennessee town, died Wednesday. He was 89. Family members said ...

Local historians and Black leaders are reexamining the legacy of Alex Haley after a new book revealed discrepancies in an interview the author published with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965.

No one can deny Alex Haley’s impact on America ... dates and facts.” Haley sent Malcolm X a note urging him to make a childhood story “more gripping,” and he sent several notes to his ...

That author was Alex Haley, whose love for Knoxville and the East Tennessee region was part of what inspired him to build a home in nearby Norris, where he spent much of his later years.

"Find the good and praise it," the best-known saying attributed to world-renowned author Alex Haley, was the theme of the night at the Museum of Appalachia's Heroes of Southern Appalachia Award ...