Alex Haley - His Search For Roots (1977)

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Speech by Roots/Autobiography of Malcolm X author ALEX HALEY originally released in 1977 by Warner Brothers Records. Presented for historical purposes. I do not own the rights.
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Alex Haley, in full Alexander Palmer Haley, (born August 11, 1921, Ithaca, New York, U.S.-died February 10, 1992, Seattle, Washington), American writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted the struggles of African Americans.
Although his parents were teachers, Haley was an indifferent student. He began writing to avoid boredom during voyages while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard (1939-59). His first major work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), was an authoritative and widely read narrative based on Haley’s interviews with the Black Muslim spokesman. The work is recognized as a classic of African American literature.
Haley’s greatest success was Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). This saga covers seven American generations, from the enslavement of Haley’s African ancestors to his own genealogical quest. The work forcefully shows relationships between generations and between races. Roots was adapted as a multi-episode television program, which, when first broadcast in January 1977, became one of the most popular shows in the history of American television and galvanized attention on African American issues and history. That same year Haley won a special Pulitzer Prize. A successful sequel was first broadcast in February 1979 as Roots: The Next Generations. Another TV adaptation of the novel debuted in 2016.
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@sharidyer4332 3 года назад

I walked into the student union of my college one evening in 1971, thinking I was going to hear Alex Haley talk about the Autobiography of Malcolm X. He was sitting comfortably on the hearth of the fireplace. There were maybe 20 students sitting in chairs around him. I sat down and was quickly riveted by his narration of what would become Roots. This was before the book was written, and long before the movie. I remember walking out from there afterwards dazed, mind blown. I knew this story was going to be monumental - a life changing event to millions. It certainly was to me. I'll never forget that evening.

@mokiewhite4338 2 года назад

He was sitting their lying to you in your face because he's smarter than you that's how he pulled this lie off and yall still BELIEVE this crap. Chile this is my land my people were already here. I gave Birth to everybody on the planet except the recessive ones.

@sharidyer4332 2 года назад

@@mokiewhite4338 I heard there were people like you, but this is a first. Enjoy your life.

@sharidyer4332 2 года назад

@@mokiewhite4338 Why and how have you come to the conclusion that it's all fictional? Or are you trolling for your own entertainment?

@emilyjones5830 2 года назад

@@sharidyer4332 My god are you obtuse! There is this new tool called the Internet. Just type in your search criteria for a bit of research. Not only was Roots fiction, but it was plagiarized from a book of fiction written by a White guy. That guy sued AH and won in court. You are a typical clueless boomer.

@rchar9757 2 года назад

Yall could have stated all those facts without the consescending. Save that for those with the energy. I am happy to see the abundande of folks reading into truth now though. Anyone that does the work of seeking truth for themselves without having to trust ANY other entity will find it right in sight. Can't be mad at anyone else for not knowing what a lot of us didn't know. I got more black ppl appauled that I don't claim this narrative than anything else.

@ChannieChauni 4 года назад

Thanks to Alex Haley I started genealogy work on both sides at 13. Now 35, I have 3000++ family members dating to 1787 until 2020. Yes I still add every birth in my family. Thank goodness for My mom and her siblings. I have photos and stories for grandparents, and their parents. It’s fun and stressful trying to figure out your family.

@markmjames66mj Год назад

After 46 years, I'm still amazed by this man's story 🙏🏾

@mzprosper Год назад

M J, I feel you and so am I 😉. This is one story, that I will never forget. I remember when it first aired. I was a little girl. There’s a part I remember when Queen first introduced herself and then many years down the road, here comes “Alex Haley’s Queen”. However, I remember experiencing racism for the first time and it wasn’t a good feeling at all.

@keithwilliams1243 Год назад

Roots was a work of fiction.

@JUBABU4 Год назад

I am not..He is a liar..

@alphaomega8373 Год назад

@@JUBABU4 But you re the bigger LIAR!

@Ma1q444 Год назад

It’s all fiction

@araisininthesun5958 4 года назад

Mr. Alex Haley was so blessed to have had the elders in his family alive long enough to share his history with him. He was intelligent enough to sit and listen. He was generous enough to share it with the world. Thank you Mr. Alex Haley! 🙏🏿♥️

@tishaglenn765 3 года назад

Ive been watching Queen (Halle Berry) these pass couple days. Its a good movie

@leonardlarrisey7525 3 года назад

This guy is,a Fraud .

@ashatay5814 3 года назад

@@leonardlarrisey7525 so is your mother

@leonardlarrisey7525 3 года назад

@@ashatay5814 do a little research before you praise someone. He faced prison time and was fined 600 thousand dollars for plagiarism. He made everything up. There was never anybody named Kuta Kinte

@soupp187 3 года назад

@@leonardlarrisey7525 🙏 THANKS. It seems like this comment is often skipped over. When you tell a lie over and over, it becomes the truth. And this roots logic or lack of... will be hard to erase...

@TheCaptain64 4 года назад

What can I say about this truly great man , I was 13 in 77 when Roots came on TV , I read the book a few years later, then Roots the next generation came in 1981 it had such an effect on me , and so moved me to this very day 43 and nearly 40yrs later , I have both series and have watched it hundreds of times willing Kunta Kinta to get free , I have watched it with my children and now grandchildren , and as a result I am my family s griot and hold the story's of my family and the names of those who came before in my family going back 300yrs by memory and family tree tracing most learnt from my grandparents and their siblings before they died in the late 80s and 90s, my gran being the last to go aged 93 in 2003 , my only regret is I never got to meet Mr Haley before he died in 1992 , thank you Mr Haley Sir , you certainly cast a great big shadow on this world with your great works , and you have left behind a monumental works, I just wish I could wright a book just one tenth as good , your book is up there imo with the likes of books by Shakespeare, and Dickens R.I.P Sir .

@kevindouglas5333 3 года назад

Yes his stolen and made up works

@simonjohnson514 3 года назад

Maybe you can meet the man that really wrote the story. Alex Haley was sued in a court of law for stealing this book from a white man.

@My2Sense-c7y 2 года назад

He was a plagiarist and was sued ! He was far from great !

@johnmalaeolevavau7042 2 года назад

where can I access the ROOTS TV series please

@blackcaesar4u 2 года назад

Blacks are the real indians. They didn't come from Africa. European history is a big lie used to cover up how Europeans stole the lands they now rule over and possess.

@lynettejohnson8418 Год назад

This is Sooo Awesome!! I have listen to Alex Haley tell this story Over and Over again!! I think Alex was so Emotional and could not hold his Tears back when he was in Africa …Because the Spirit of his Ancestor Kunta Kenta was in him Rejoicing!! He was Finally back Home in the Homeland he was Taken from!!!🙏🏾

@tayabtahir1 Год назад

well its worth listening and I have also listened over and over again especially from a person who knows the art of narration.

@ellenringer5236 Год назад

I screamed and moaned out loud when he narrated his feelings after hearing the name "Kunte Kinte" being spoken by the griot. When the women gave him their babies to hold, after visiting the village of his ancestors, Alex Haley would learn how the father named their child after the seven-day ritual. Today, we have cast ourselves in a pit where motherhood and fatherhood are taken for granted. We hold nothing sacred.

@Simon-pl2zi 6 месяцев назад

@@ellenringer5236 It has been proven conclusively that Kunta Kinte was an invention in Haley's imagination. Black historians and commentators have spoke at length on this, exposing Haley's lie.

@MrBrad2538 4 года назад

Mr Haley inspired me to do my geneology. I can trace back to 1812 on both my mother & father's side. I stumbled upon a slave narrative that my great-grandfather left. He was a boy on the plantation during the Civil War and described in detail the battle of Franklin Tennessee in 1864

@jamescorbett3611 4 года назад

it is a great story you have - please treasure it and pass to your family

@bjduncan9704 3 года назад

Incredible! I’ve heard that many of the slave records were lost after the civil war

@BJones-dg6nj 3 года назад

How do you go about doing that?

@marieberberich4445 3 года назад

@@bjduncan9704 I do slavery research as well. The records are far from lost. Many courthouses in the south were burned down over the years but that by no means makes the situation hopeless. I do my research in Georgia and, while there are archives in Atlanta not all the records on any one family are there. They are, very often, to be found courthouses of each little county. The reason, among many, that they don't make it to Atlanta is that it would cost money. Many of these records are on microfiche and would have to be copied onto another fiche format or digitized for computers. Another suggestion: If you are interested in slave research, always keep an open mind as to the names in the census. Many times, you will run across a name that is African. You won't know that at first but.you will be thinking to yourself "what.kind of a name is that?" At that point, type in the name as it is spelt in the records into an internet search engine. If you come up with nothing, try again with a phonetic variation. If you need to try to verify the country in Africa, look up who was the colonial power. That may help you with the correct phonetic spelling. Remember, African languages and their words are spelt out phonetically as many are not from a written tradition. Good luck!

@kimpostom872 3 года назад

That's what's up

@reneearnold6663 2 года назад

Teach your child their history and they will want to learn more as they get older. I say this because my son gifted me a copy of this recording last year for my birthday. He found it in an old record shop while traveling. Thank you son❤️Listening to these recordings is simply awesome.

@keithwilliams1243 Год назад

Roots is not history, it is a work of fiction.

@altrbill Год назад

This is propaganda. Even the author admits that his book is a myth. You are misinforming your child and teaching him to be a victim smh

@raallah9091 Год назад

But roots is a fake story that is not your history

@raallah9091 Год назад

It is mostly black women falling for this foolishness. The same ones that believe in Jesus

@OnlyUknow2 Год назад

@@altrbill LMAO wat

@marvinodhiambo8362 Год назад

This man is incredible. Such a long narration without using "......er" in his speech. Speaking in prose all the way! He was brilliant!!

@raallah9091 Год назад

You my friend are a meat head the story was not true now what i bet you call yourself African American 😢

@justinreilly1 7 месяцев назад

He lied to profit by causing racial hatred. He also didn’t say “er…” much. Yes, I agree, weighting the positives and negatives, he was a true hero.

@Simon-pl2zi 6 месяцев назад

He was reading it from a transcript

@c.calliecoleman1531 4 года назад

Omg. That ending where the father speaks the name of his child, in their ear,on the 8th day,so the baby will know their fathers voice, sent chills all through me. Then to raise the baby to the sky and say"Behold the only thing greater than yourself "..No wonder we are so spirited and humble. Mr. Alex Haley thank you for showing us how you traced your roots. You were the first I ever heard of doing that and I know it's possible for anyone to find theirs. Till I find mine, I've kind of adopted your Mandingo tribe, in hopes I'm in your family. ❤I would love that. As many miles and trips you went through to research seems like about as many miles your ancestors came from their homeland. It's like you met them halfway. Yes God was definitely involved with you, because the miracle happened at the very moment you saw the name Toby, on the census, who was Kunta Kenta.🌷🌷🌷RIP Alex Haley🌷🌷🌷

@angelasmith3967 4 года назад

Well, said.

@queens4624 4 года назад

Cloveice Colemen am from Gambia and I know many African Americans that will come down every year

@debd1371 4 года назад

Take a DNA test and maybe you will find out. It's worth a try! My cousins and I each tested with a different company and Benin and and Togo kept coming up.

@rodmoore1577 3 года назад

When we brought our son home from the hospital January 24 1997 I took our son outside the next night raised him to the heavens and said Janson behold the only thing greater than yourself. The minute I saw that in Roots I knew I was going to do that. How many out there have done that? You should. It's like taking back a piece of your culture history and heritage.

@kevindouglas5333 3 года назад

Wrong. Toby was owned in 1762...5 years before Haley's book said kunta was EVEN BROUGHT TO AMERICA..

@khaniyah1494 4 года назад

I am 25 years old n now have finished roots started it when I was 11. Didn’t have the attention span back then but this quarantine helped😂🙌🏾

@trillgods5 4 года назад

You do know the story of Roots was plagiarized right?

@theraceanalystphdprovingha4119 4 года назад

Good for you...us in college were glued watching it together. Our one real life Anglo-Saxon friend named "Becky" (for real), she cried at the cut-foot scene. If you know and respect your heritage, this story is a treasure. We are magnificent...

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 года назад

@@trillgods5 only the slave ship scene, less than a page is claimed to be plagiarized. You did know what right?

@michaeloliphant665 4 года назад

GREAT MY SISTER.....GREAT

@sonofanarchy9450 4 года назад

Where did you watch it? What site

@lvjackson8030 Год назад

Absolutely Amazing... thank you Mr. Haley, posthumously, for sharing your journey to find your family and Roots, print & the television series. To hear your voice all these years later is amazing and a treasure not to be taken lightly. It has opened the doors for so many to find their long lost families, ancestors. What a gift God bestowed upon us, thank you.

@justinreilly1 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for your all your cynical lies to make money by creating racial hatred, Alex Haley. A true hero.

@Simon-pl2zi 6 месяцев назад

Haley's story about finding his ancestor Kunta Kinte is all myth. It has been proven conclusively that Kunta Kinte was a character Haley invented in his imagination.

@katjam01kr 2 месяца назад

Parts of the story were plagiarized, but the core of his story was true. It was a story of an African-American family who could trace the first African who arrived to America from their family.

@sheepswool297 2 года назад

Praise God for enabling Mr. Kente-Haley to write this book!

@bvl98 Год назад

A great writer. A great story teller. A legend in his field. Thank you Sir.

@justinreilly1 7 месяцев назад

A great charlatan and con artist.

@erickanew 4 года назад

I remember my grandmother used to get together with her sisters and friends and told stories. Lol, wish I paid attention

@angelar.2088 4 года назад

Still goes on today in mine..........😁🌹

@trishfryburger4204 4 года назад

Cdivgyh

@UAMAK777 4 года назад

OMG, i just had that conversation!❤

@acajudi100 3 года назад

I did pay attention, and they are in my journals.

@erickanew 3 года назад

@@acajudi100 pretty cool. I remember having journals but have no idea where they are

@lynettejohnson8418 2 года назад

I ABSOLUTE LOVE THIS STORY!! I CAN LISTEN TO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!😊💕🙏

@Nened1971 2 года назад

I'm am glad to say that Alex Haley is my grandmother's cousin. I wanted to listen to every thing he knew about our ancestors. I remember watching roots as a 6yr old child. At that time I didn't understand the relations. But now at 51, I am so interested in learning about my ancestors

@batchndow5512 Год назад

Hello if you want to know about your ancestors text me i will help you out

@Nened1971 Год назад

@@batchndow5512 how can I text u?

@NamelessMan-zd7hw 11 месяцев назад

Nice 2 meet u, my cousin. My grandmothers name is Blanche Henning, from Henning, TN. She is Alex Haley's 1st cousin.

@audreas.2114 Год назад

I remember as a child sitting down to watch Roots with my mother and siblings, I'm now 52 years old. This video is beyond Amazing! Mr. Haley poured his life into searching out, conquering and achieving the rich history of his family. A man on a mission set to fulfill and later on achieve such a meaningful purpose that God had designed for his life. Well done Mr. Haley! Thanks reel-black for posting this video, I will share with others that I know, it's very inspirational.

@dianegreen2139 3 года назад

Thank you Mr Hayley this book brought me to West Africa where I've been for 30 years from Can USA working on my book called the Door of Return. I enjoy this story RIP

@eddieg849 3 года назад

This was beautiful, this video should be played in every school in America. And broadcast on every news channel in the world.

@davisholman8149 2 года назад

Are you joking? He stole most of this from two other authors. He had to pay them a huge percentage of the money he made.

@eddieg849 2 года назад

@@davisholman8149 you know you should really stop smoking crack

@Mathilda5xp Год назад

And in history books around the world.

@miltondixon7091 Год назад

You are so right bro.

@LOAblue 3 года назад

I've read Roots and saw the mini-series, but never knew this existed. This was so interesting to listen to, and just to think, he found all this info without the benefit of the internet.

@stanmoney8470 2 года назад

Isn't this amazing! Also before DNA testing!

@yvonnewitherspoon846 2 года назад

Yeap, oral and an almost forgotten items , Books. Time has definitely made a change

@emilyjones5830 2 года назад

The book is fiction and plagiarized from a White guy. Do your research.

@My2Sense-c7y 2 года назад

@@emilyjones5830 Thank you ! These people are praising him ! Really ?

@hassanabdur-rahman1559 2 года назад

@@emilyjones5830 you are trolling in order to ease your racist conscious.

@marybass5412 2 года назад

EXCELLENT ❤️❤️❤️This reminded me of growing up with my Great Grandfather and Grandmother in Crystal Springs Mississippi…..❤️❤️❤️We were always told our FAMILY HISTORY and I have been doing my BASS/WILSON FAMILY research for over 55 years and I find some thing new all the time……

@collinsejaife1956 4 года назад

What a way to end. "Behold the only thing greater than thyself ". Very moving. Goose bumps all over me!

@happiliciousbabe6214 3 года назад

Very moving Indeed

@keyamsha 2 года назад

Wow.,. I had goosebumps too.

@BLISB 6 лет назад

The meticulous amount of time money and fortitude it too this man to gather the information he did then write it all out and get it turned into a movie is absolutely amazing.

@greedyd5524 5 лет назад

BLIS B. He stole it

@charisparrott6177 4 года назад

@jorge alberto ospna I bet you believe that Columbus discovered America though.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 года назад

@Eric Perry only the Slave ship portion of the book was claimed to be plagiarized. It was less than a page.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 года назад

@jorge alberto ospna only the Slave ship portion of the book was claimed to be plagiarized. It was less than a page.

@rmark2836 3 года назад

He sold book and film tights for 800

@sthembisomotaung7268 4 года назад

Dr Haley has inspired me to search and write about my geanology family tree, from my father's side,I'm so proud about it,THANKS TO MR HALEY

@davisholman8149 2 года назад

This was not his genealogy. It was fiction & he PLAGIARIZED it from two other authors.

@tracyleesmith781 4 года назад

My mom told me about Roots, omg it was very powerful. As when i got older, i understood where i come from & i knew most of my maternal's side of family. But my paternal's side is a bit of mystery, the most i got is my great grandparents. What i learned from The Roots are names, place & when. RIP Alex Haley, thank u✊🏾🖤✌🏾❤

@parkersmith7611 Год назад

Hello Tlee how are you doing today? it's a good thing you come across Root, i must confess the message in the Root is very powerful... R.I.P Alex Haley

@kuntakintecampbell3005 6 лет назад

My name is Kunta Kinte Campbell born 1977 all my life it’s been my dreams to share it with the world

@Bibbs65 5 лет назад

It's also a lot of kizzie's out there, it was a Roots frenzy out there in 1977

@harleyd9857 5 лет назад

I went to elementary school with a girl named Binta back in the 80s.

@ilovebeinagirl 5 лет назад

Never let anyone call you Toby.

@a.deewai3181 5 лет назад

Well, Kunta Kinte, now you have!☑️😃 God bless ‼️ A. DEE WAI.

@conniedaniels6362 5 лет назад

Kunta kinte Campbell i named one of my gold fish Kunta.

@alejandratwaalfhoven9602 2 года назад

Wow, I was a child about 8 when I saw Roots on TV. I did not watch it, but I felt an Attraction, and here I am learning about it today . What a most magical story. What love and dedication. My Respect and admiration to all your hard work. Life can hold such things that seem to have to be destine.

@sharmacrenshaw5842 2 года назад

Roots has always been a right of passage amongst African Americans. I remember sitting in the dark on my grandmothers kitchen watching the week long broadcast that came on it about 2 hour intervals on a 13 inch television. It was emotional watching it then as a young child but listening to Mr. Hailey tell his account in his own voice was astounding to me!!! I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. This was awesome!!! It encourages me to research my lineage now!!

@justinreilly1 7 месяцев назад

Sounds like you don’t know that he admitted Roots was a con job.

@adrianmcdonald84 5 месяцев назад

It was made up. Haley admitted that

@carmenpbronx9190 2 года назад

Thank you Mr. Haley for sharing your family history .👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@LadyLindaBird 3 года назад

I have thoroughly enjoyed this! Mr Haley ever so eloquently narrated his story, which is our story! Bravo 👏🏽

@renzob.4501 2 года назад

Dec 15, 1978 Alex Haley settled a lawsuit yesterday by acknowledging that his world‐renowned book “Roots” contained some material from a relatively unknown novel about slavery that was published nine years earlier. The settlement ended the six‐week trial of a suit by Harold Courlander, a 70‐yearold author from Bethesda, Md., who contended there were substantial similarities between “Roots” and his own earlier novel, “The African.” He sued in Federal District Court in Manhattan for more than half the profits of “Roots.” AS the trial was about to reach a climax with summations by the opposing lawyers, they issued the following statement: “The suit has been amicably settled out of court. Alex Haley acknowledges and regrets that vatious materials from ‘The African’ by Harold Courlander found their way into his book ‘Roots.’ “ Under the agreement to settle, the amount of money that will be paid to Mr. Courlander and his publisher, Crown, was not disclosed. But the nature of the case made it seem likely that the amount would be hundreds of thousands of dollars.

@eyesf7693 4 года назад

Your legacy of story telling are hopeful and nothing less than inspiring Alex Haley. The potential of each and every child is raised by the investment of love and boundaries regardless of what culture you identify with.

@lesthebest3171 2 года назад

This is a treasure about a man who not only wrote classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X, but inspired the world thru Roots to appreciate genealogy. Loved every word of this.

@carolynroberts1196 Год назад

Awesome, intriguing ,mind blowing and deeply emotional. Could listen to it over and over again

@StefBOfficial11 Год назад

You should read /watch Queen another Alex Haley story

@lesthebest3171 Год назад

@@StefBOfficial11 I have and enjoyed Queen as well as The Palmertown series. Everyone who loves genealogy should be a fan of his work. I had the pleasure of meeting him while he was touring college campuses before Roots hit. I wanted to be one of his researchers, which he encouraged me to do. Unfortunately I never followed through. In retrospect this was one of my major career mistakes, but that’s life. Nevertheless Haley was a great scholar and a very inspiring and kind man.

@coventrypunx1014 Год назад

Did the technology he used to trace his genealogy originate in Africa or none Black African country

@lesthebest3171 Год назад

@@coventrypunx1014 much of Haley info came from family history past down generations. Most of his research came from research he did at The Library of Congress. Their shipping logs and census records were essential before the advent of the internet.

@deborahwilson4203 2 года назад

So Powerful💥🔥What a History Lesson. Thank you Mr Alex Haley for your work of great wisdom and knowledge to leave for us so we know us … may you rest in power 🙏🏾❤️

@parkersmith7611 Год назад

Hello Deborah how are you doing today?Root is full of motivational and inspirational

@mariaboletsis3188 4 года назад

This is an excellent account of family history as well as cultural history. He really was one the most intelligent and well articulated icons of the 20th century. I truly enjoyed learning about his family roots and how much it truly touched him as a writer and as a human being.

@mzVjonez Год назад

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾ooooMY LORRRD!!!! mr haley you have set your greatgreatgreatgreatgrandfather FREEEEE!!!! my heart is beating sooo fast right now listening to your story....not only him your whole family that was inslaved✊🏿grandfather kunta kinte is FREEEEEE🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾amen&amen

@waldowil 3 года назад

So very glad to have had my attention drawn to this. Thank you Mr. Haley for putting your history together and sharing with us.

@kevindouglas5333 3 года назад

His history? Toby was already here 5 years before he says kunta was supposedly kidnapped. No Kizzy or Bell. He was full of shit

@jayt-mac2074 2 года назад

Thank you for uploading this audio. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

@paulettelittle7500 4 года назад

I'm 54 years old black American woman I remember watching the movie when I was 12 years old we would go back 2 school and talk about the movie Every day until it finish we learned 2 love Africa after that we all wanted 2 find our family back home in Africa! I never traced my roots back but I'm going 2 relive my childhood dream and find my family!😅😂😁😉😉😊

@msnikkinn1111 3 года назад

Hope ur research is goin well

@karenjdavis8 3 года назад

Same

@juliettecumberbatch5672 4 года назад

Want to thank you very much for that history I am in Barbados ,I saw Roots in Canada,I cried so much I couldn't watch to the end because it hurts so much . Thank you so much for the history.

@teethompson7756 2 года назад

I can't express how happy I am to have come across this lecture. I read the autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley. I lent it to a friend who lost it, or kept it 🤔. I watched Roots as a child when it was first aired in 1979. I now own both books and they are the treasure of my library. Thank you again for posting this lecture/video. I have viewed a few of your other videos and hope you will continue to educate us.

@davisholman8149 2 года назад

You do know he plagiarized much of the book Roots from two separate authors, who both sued him & both won a huge settlement. Please research this.

@davidhoward1950 Год назад

Haley inspired my roots search,ongoing since 1978.i can go back,thru my own diggings,back to my gr9 Abraham whitaker.i had no one to guide me my dad died 1963.thank you,Alex!!David Howard

@bridgetcooper6331 4 года назад

So Fascinating to listen to this mans journey.

@lesliebryan9401 5 лет назад

I remember when the movie was televised. I'm from New York and I remember being glued to the television each night watching with tears in my young eyes in disbelief of how cruel people of this world could be. Years later when I was a student at Harry S Truman High-school in The Bronx I met Alex Hayley's grandson William. It's been years since I have seen William. I hope he is Well. RIP Mr. Alex Hayley.... RIP Mr. William Hayley

@MsNini-sw2jn 4 года назад

I hung out at Truman for years.

@rveeing802 3 года назад

WOW!!!

@tyvaniablack8383 2 года назад

As a 25 yr old man I swear to God we need more young black people on this channel . Thank you for creating this it teaches us black history. 👍🙏

@lovelyvanessadorahill8585 Год назад

No need of swearing m

@ladyR1969 Год назад

I truly truly enjoyed listening to Alex Hailey's story. I was totally engrossed...overwhelmed with emotion of so many feelings. Thank you for posting!

@archimandritegregory7730 2 года назад

This is the most important, the richest explanation of the history of one man and his extended family and culture that I have heard.. What a gift Mr. Haley has given to all people who seek to know more deeply who we are and from whence we come. Thank you sir.

@sylviabrown5263 2 года назад

Awesome. I received a greater sense of self as I related to my ancestors, the power of Spiritual connection and the wisdom of God.

@parkersmith7611 Год назад

Hello Sylvia how are you doing today?That was an amazing story and journey. And his telling of it was so entertaining

@Simon-pl2zi 6 месяцев назад

Did you know your ancestors likely also had slaves? By the 1800s in America thousands of free Africans were owners of black slaves. Also most of the African slaves shipped to America, were first captured and transported by dominant African tribes to the coastal trading ports and sold to the Europeans. Of course, Haley left these minor details out of his book.

@christineyetman640 2 года назад

Wow....I have seen the movie Roots ..but to sit back and listen to Alex tell how he came to put his history to page is a soulful experience..

@DevikaK100 2 года назад

Haley's dedication, meticulousness and diligence amazes me. And as another viewer said below, this occurred before the advent of the Internet and DNA records. Even if it were not 100 percent accurate, it's the anecdotal knowledge that matters.

@jupiterskiss3473 2 года назад

It's all lies... Very damaging to the Black psyche. He just added to the confusion

@Newsnclips 11 месяцев назад

@@jupiterskiss3473 You are very correct sir. Disinformation at it's finest.

@carolrhoden9204 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing your story, it's so deep, your a beautiful compassionate soul, sending you and your family love and light

@janicefalkner5137 Год назад

Love, Love , Love This Man’s Voice!!! I could listen to Him for hrs. When Roots first came out I was twenty. Lots of folks couldn’t wait. I’d seen a lot for my age but I could not watch it. It Was TOO BAD!!! My husband watched it & said he thought I’d like it since I’d done a lot of reading on the subject but it wasn’t as bad as seeing it. Hell I couldn’t get past the ship ride over here. I had a little neighbor lady who was Italian. She loved it & she & my husband discussed it every day. Man’s Inhumanity To Man she called it. Boy was she right. I tried numerous times but I’d have to leave outta there in tears. I had nightmares about it. And so the second time I vowed to stick it out & I watched the entire thing. I had a brand new baby boy & just kept thinking how horrible it would be to live that life. Working like a dog for people only to watch them sell off your family. Whip & Beaten for stuff that was not their fault. I think it’s sick. The whole thing is just so sick!!! I never got it & I still don’t!!! If I was them & could do voodoo,,, I’d be voodooing their asses back to hell where they obviously came from!!! I hate people who beat animals much less people,,, who do not deserve it. I hope they’re paying in hell for what they did!!! That’s my opinion & im stickin to it!!!

@muttleycrew 2 года назад

How the hell did I miss this absolutely brilliant upload for three years, so glad this is available, thanks so, so much uploader.

@renzob.4501 2 года назад

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@garycopeland1675 2 года назад

This interview with Alex Haley was great. I really enjoyed it! 👏🏾

@adeboyex7045 2 года назад

I remember watching the mini series in 1981. Alex Harley was Remarkable man. You can just tell there was a DIVINE Intelligence Guiding Him from that front porch into the jungles of Africa and through the entire fact gathering; An Intelligence beyond mortal compression that wanted the story told and properly documented beyond every reasonable doubt. Just simply remarkable

@angelawilliams971 2 года назад

I personally enjoyed this and I ❤️ the old fashioned art of letter writing. My Dad would write me letters and I would write him back. I would continue to write letters from the❤️ it was much easier. Letters can be misinterpreted. The reciever might not comprehend your true meaning Some things are not to be taken literally. When one writes from the ❤️ the love should jump off the page. Not many people write letters or send cards. My mom once told me I should write a book. Maybe one day I will. Thanks for sharing. May Mr. Alex Haley RIP. He wanted to teach folks history. My Mom told me she use to ❤️ listening to her Aunt's talk. I never knew my paternal or maternal grandparents. I saw my mother's. grandmother once. I to this day ❤️ to hear stories from senior citizens for their wisdom is priceless.

@sanmijilsanmijik5703 3 года назад

Really wished I could have met you Mr Haley, that story roots was such an enlightening story . We need more families like yours that kept their true roots and origin alive.

@renzob.4501 2 года назад

Alex Haley settled a lawsuit yesterday by acknowledging that his world‐renowned book “Roots” contained some material from a relatively unknown novel about slavery that was published nine years earlier. The settlement ended the six‐week trial of a suit by Harold Courlander, a 70‐yearold author from Bethesda, Md., who contended there were substantial similarities between “Roots” and his own earlier novel, “The African.” He sued in Federal District Court in Manhattan for more than half the profits of “Roots.” AS the trial was about to reach a climax with summations by the opposing lawyers, they issued the following statement: “The suit has been amicably settled out of court. Alex Haley acknowledges and regrets that vatious materials from ‘The African’ by Harold Courlander found their way into his book ‘Roots.’ “ Under the agreement to settle, the amount of money that will be paid to Mr. Courlander and his publisher, Crown, was not disclosed. But the nature of the case made it seem likely that the amount would be hundreds of thousands of dollars.

@LaVidaLindsay 3 года назад

Thank you for sharing this jewel!

@kingfisher9725 4 года назад

I watched the series when I was twelve here in Europe. And I read the book more than once. Never forgot it and purchased the DVDs some years ago. I'm going to watch it with my teenage sons again.

@milliemartin5024 3 года назад

Mr Haley's true life story of his Roots, and forebears as slave immigrants from Africa to America is such an amazing and inspirational biography. I was totally immersed listening to this captivating journey of Kunta Kintae...❤I am a Maori from New Zealand Aotearoa on my own journey of discovery..

@kevindouglas5333 3 года назад

True. Lol

@renzob.4501 2 года назад

Read the African by harold courlander

@milliemartin5024 2 года назад

Thank you..book ordered..🤙discovered several other interesting novels by this author.

@nome5123 3 года назад

I want to thank you for posting this. I had this double album when it came out. I'm 11-12 again listening to this

@a.musaahmad5229 6 лет назад

I had this album when I was a little boy!

@MsNini-sw2jn 4 года назад

I still have the Roots album

@nave37 2 года назад

My mother was an actor in Roots Alex Haley gave her; her first acting gig. Now I'm a published author, comedian and actor.🙏🏾💯

@beverlyweber4122 2 года назад

What “Roots” introduced into popular culture was the unavoidable fact that slavery is not some distant abstraction but a current that runs all the way through American history, whose effects are literally visible to this day. It was not just a misguided social institution or an outmoded economic practice but a crime of violence perpetrated over many decades on the bodies and lives of real people, not categorically distinct from the people who sat mesmerized on their couches in 1977. Most of the viewing audience for the first “Roots” was white (simply going by the numbers). This is/was incredible, mind-blowing. More people watched that mini-series than watched the Super Bowl that year, or watched any other television show or movie. Fact or fiction...or fact-tion, this book made slavery real...and explained why black people in America tend to be lighter in complexion than their African forebears.

@Simon-pl2zi 6 месяцев назад

Slavery is not a racial issue as Alex Haley tried to make people believe. It was instituted purely for commercial reasons. Millions of people of all race and color have been enslaved by the millions throughout history by black and white races. By the 1800s in America there were nearly four thousand free black slaveholders who worked African slaves on the black owned plantations. Before the transatlantic slave trade dominant African tribes were killing and enslaving the weaker African tribes by the millions. Between the 1500s - 1800s most of the African slaves shipped to America, were captured by African leaders and transported to the trading posts on the African coastline. The European traders then shipped them to Europe and America. During this time whites were being enslaved into North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. When it comes to slavery no one race or color is guilt free.

@FUNKINETIK 2 года назад

I was transfixed watching Roots on tv when I was 12 years young. Without doubt the best and most moving thing I have ever watched on tv. It is so very sad that evil minded cruel people still roam our planet. P E A C E : )

@cathylewis3967 3 года назад

This is wonderful!

@missysbloglife 2 года назад

This was simply amazing to listen to.

@taniajones 2 года назад

I read the book. I remember I was 9 years when they show the series here in Belgium. It was shocking for me at the same time it changed my life. And in my teens I started to go to library to learn more. So I learned the real history not alone the one they teach in school. I have the DVD Roots en Roots the next generation. I let my four children watch it and when the time is right I will let my grand children watch it as well. Thanks to post this story. Everyone should listen to this. Because as well Belgium did a lot awful things in Congo,🙏❤️🇧🇪.

@denisehopkins4885 4 года назад

The art of story telling is very important to pass on generational history..so we know who we are.

@trillgods5 4 года назад

The roots story wasn't passed down via storytelling. It was plagiarized.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 года назад

@@trillgods5 only the Slave ship portion of the book was claimed to be plagiarized. It was less than a page. Get your fact straight. Up here trying to defame that man.

@mbakunkasa3784 4 года назад

@@trillgods5. Some part of life of kunta kinte in America may be a fiction , but the part of his life in Africa were based on facts .In traditional African culture , there used to be " oral tradition " .That consisted in passing important stories orally from generation to generation .In his book " Decolonizing mind " , the Kenyan writer Ngungi Wa Thiongo called that type of tradition " orature ".

@trillgods5 4 года назад

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 and the rest was fictional.

@ancienttechnique5830 19 дней назад

I was born after the movie roots and naturally I’ve never seen the movie. Watching now for the first time in 2024. It’s a hard pill to swallow

@joanaarons18 Год назад

To Alex Haley thanks for your patience and hard work and all who make roots come to life I am so grateful.god gives you wisdom and you used it well. . your story has touch so so many people

@parkersmith7611 Год назад

Hello Joan how are you doing today?Alex Haley has in deed being a blessing to this generation

@BrotherX 3 года назад

"Wonderful Reading and Viewing! Alex Haley Had Really Embraced His / Our Past For A Redemptive Future!" Minister Mauricelm X

@zaytum 4 года назад

Dr Alex haley is very intelligent and beuthfully. God bless him and his familj🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 thank you reelblack👍👍👍

@deborahwighton5230 3 года назад

I live in Scotland, Born in the 70s ,we never got any history about this topic ,The first time I was educated about this is when Roots came on TV ,

@bettyjenkins2162 4 года назад

I believe the elders in his family they had no reason to lie. God Bless the elders and Alex Haley.

@parkersmith7611 Год назад

Hello Betty how are you doing today?God blessing the elders

@hhairball9 5 лет назад

I remember around 1975 or 1976, one of my teachers had brought a cassette that his friend Alex Haley had sent him. It was about 45 minutes of Mr. Haley telling this story of his search for his ancestor that his gramma told him was named "Kintay". We only got to hear about half of it when class ended. I asked the teacher if I could come after school was over to hear the rest. He was happy that I was interested enough to want to hear more of the story. Thank you for putting this up!

@renzob.4501 2 года назад

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@hhairball9 2 года назад

@@renzob.4501 wow! Thank you so much! This is wonderful!

@hhairball9 2 года назад

@@renzob.4501 this was even more fascinating than I thought! Thank you again!

@sergiolobato1798 3 года назад

The autobiography of Malcolm X is Mr Haleys best work.

@mauramicheletti3950 2 года назад

In Italy the series Roots arrived in 1978 and It was a success wonderful!!!

@ronaldberue3550 4 года назад

WOW !! Alex Haley was not only a Great writer !! He was a Phenominal speaker !! Thank you Very Much, sir. May you rest in Heavenly And Eternal peace.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 4 года назад

Have you read any of his books?

@wendylloyd5291 2 года назад

Yes this overwhelming story is true. I watched the whole series over 13 weeks in 1981. It took me 6 years to read the big paper and never tired from it. Bought the dvd though of course it finishes when Chicken George and family travel to Tennessee.

@petuladavis9561 2 года назад

beautiful,I remember seeing this on tv in New Zealand in the 70s I was 7 yrs old l love it,it’s a beautiful story of one man who passed on only a few sounds n words through family to return one day 200 yrs later in spirit to his people

@jernesehill1808 3 года назад

He was so blessed because a lot of these elders are extremely HUSH when it comes to history they don’t wanna tell you anything

@curtusdanton61 2 года назад

And they troll, lie, sue, and kill, to maintain their relentless hatred. It will be a great day when God eliminates Satan and his lying, and hateful children, and sets the entire record straight.

@GoodVibesNewlevel2023 3 года назад

I am listening to this audio and it is very good. It makes me want to go to my own Motherland village and see my blood line.

@ginawalker583 3 года назад

See my playlist

@Simon-pl2zi 2 года назад

the book Roots was set in the 1700s and at that time more Africans were being oppressed and enslaved by African tribes than Europeans.

@wendycathey535 5 лет назад

I dated an African from Gambia he stated that kunta kinta is true

@sankungsuwaneh3871 5 лет назад

One day try to come to gambia u wil see jufreh were kunta kinteh was born, lot of African were taken to America my grandad told me one of their great grand dad brother was taken to America he was never been seen. He was captured in the farm one faithful day lot have happened in west Africa.

@denzelbrim6513 5 лет назад

Wendy Cathey Kunta kinte is so true , you can still find the place where he was captured as slave out in Gambia

@christinharrison621 4 года назад

True.West Africa suffered the most in the day's of slavery..They took fathers away from their kids..Kids from their parents..Sister's away from their brother's or even uncles..So sad most slaves were separated from their blood relative's...So i can say our families still exist in Africa.

@iyatunde7860 4 года назад

i guess you are an African right? your picture shows

@toshdidon2546 4 года назад

Very true , I'm also from Gambia Near Kunta kinteh land

@EdMcStinko 3 года назад

This is one of the most remarkable stories I've ever heard

@kevindouglas5333 3 года назад

Yes. He lies really well

@felishamoorer5234 2 года назад

@@kevindouglas5333 Why do you think that?

@danastewart8709 2 года назад

I live only one hour away from Henning TN so I drove down there And was at Aww how small that little town was and I went inside Alex old home and his grave was right in the front yard and I cried because I walked right into history then I went to the graveyard at the cemetery and I had to go to the black side of the graveyard because in those days blacks were not allowed to be buried next to White's. I found Alex Haley's whole family graves and I stood over it and said a prayer and took pictures it was the best experience ever to me so I'm planning on going back and take my family.

@bdchiaccio 5 лет назад

So incredibly fascinating! So sad that Alex and his son have both passed

@kareemhesham2215 4 года назад

Yeah, Alex, his son William, and both of his brothers George and Julius are dead

@DoctorK279 Год назад

Growing up as an African child in Africa, my parents made sure we watched and read Roots by Alex Haley. Coincidentally, many years later, I befriended a lady from The Gambia 🇬🇲 from the tribe of Kunta Kinte. In 2008, there was a very old lady in her village known as Mama Kinte. Ma Kinte has since passed, and she was a direct ancestor to Kunta Kinte. Since Alex Hayley’s Roots, Ma Kinte famously became one of the last generations constantly visited by many tourists, and who remembered the story of the capture of her relative Kunta Kinte. Her village is located at the old slave ports still standing today in The Gambia, West Africa. I do pity African Americans because as a people, no one deserves to endure such slavery and stolen from their homes.

@rtgeorgelu 2 года назад

That was an amazing story and journey. And his telling of it was so entertaining

@vegawob 2 года назад

Thank you for this, simply amazing

@tudy7487 2 года назад

This was so exceptionally Brilliant and wonderfully poignant...thank you Mr Haley...Mr.Kinte...rest in peace.

@barbarathompson6205 3 года назад

When ROOTS CAME OUT I COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY MY PARENTS WOULD NOT WATCH IT, Because I had to work and EVERYTIME I would ask them did you watch ROOTS AND THEY WOULD ALWAYS SAY!!, until I was finally able to watch it myself, I then UNDERSTOOD WHY!! Wow!!! That was such a touching picture for black peoples.

@user-mj8nf2vp7q 3 года назад

My maternal Grandmother said she couldn't either, although she read the book. Her pain was too fresh to relive it vividly. 👍🏽💯🤔

@conniedaniels6362 4 года назад

If you know not from whence you came, you are doomed to live in shame.Find out as much as you can about your family history,because you certainly have one.RIP Kunta Kente

@anitagastelum8618 4 года назад

I've always felt a pull in Me whenever I'd see scenes of Africa ;like I've been there before my heart would long to be there. I took the Ancestry DNA test and my results showed that I Do Posses 3% Hunter/Gatherers of North & South Africa! 🙏. The Spirit Instinctively calls from Deep Foundations/Roots. FATHER IS AWESOME 💖 MYSTERIOUS;BREATH-TAKING💃

@leonardlarrisey7525 3 года назад

There never was a Kunta Kinte. The character was madre up. He plagiarized ""Roots"" from a novel that was written years before. He spent time in prison and was fined 650 thousand dollars for his crime. This guy is a complete fraud

@UBCstyle 2 года назад

I remember vividly watching the mini-series as a child. A very gripping story. This is even more interesting to hear the behind the scenes trials and tribulations. Very cool

@ericnancewoehler3888 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so, so much for posting this.

@danielarena-solla5950 3 года назад

His story was just fascinating and inspiring. I gather that we humans are constantly in search for the meaning of live and a purpose, but we have to realize that to start looking for that meaning we should start by knowing our roots first.

@fabianf1115 4 года назад

Awesome story of his life and existence.

@kevindouglas5333 3 года назад

Lol. Bullshit

@blaqquesugawriter9267 Год назад

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH MR. ALEX HALEY FOR LETTING ME KNOW WHERE I COME FROM. #AFRICA

@michaeldennis9090 6 лет назад

Good looking out on sharing this one Mike. - One has to ponder - will we remain in exile forever. Shall we ever know the mother continent. Know the mother country of our forefathers. We we ever have the language of any of the mother continent’s peoples in our mouths. - this was a powerful video. I know that I will die and my ashes be spread somewhere in one of the western countries there -