Alex Haley (31 page)

35.
New York Times,
November 9, 1978.

36.
Joseph Bruchac to author, March 26, 2015.

37.
This information comes from an anonymous source, a person who witnessed the entire trial and was privy to Judge Ward's comments made in his chambers.

38.
Courlander v. Haley
trial transcript, 1650, ARC, MS 2032, box 6, folders 16 and 20.

39.
This information came from a source who chooses to remain anonymous.

40.
Courlander trial transcript, p. 1346, AHP, MS 1888, box 39, folder 11.

41.
Berger to author, March 14, 2015.

42.
This information came from a source who chooses to remain anonymous.

43.
Village Voice,
February 23, 1993; Berger to author, March 16, 2015.

44.
Village Voice,
February 23, 1993.

45.
Berger to author, March 14, 2015.

46.
AH to Murray Fisher, October 18, 1975, ARC, MS 2032, box 3, folder 28.

47.
Donald R. Wright, “Uprooting Kunta Kinte: On the Perils of Relying on Encyclopedic Informants,”
History in Africa,
8 (1981): 205–17.

48.
Ibid.

49.
Gary B. Mills and Elizabeth Shown Mills, “‘Roots' and the New ‘Faction': A Legitimate Tool for Clio?”
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
89 (January 1981): 3–26.

Chapter 11: Find the Good and Praise It

1.
AR interview with Leonard Jeffries, May 9, 1994, MS 2055, box 1, tape 40;
New York Times,
December 10, 1988.

2.
Mallon quoted in Julia Kamysz Lane, “A Brief History of the ‘P' Word,”
Poets&Writers,
May 1, 2002,
http://www.pw.org/content/brief_history_quotpquot_word
.

3.
Donald Bogle,
Blacks in American Films and Television: An Encyclopedia
(New York: Garland, 1988), 343–344.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Palmerstown file, AHP, MS 1888, box 64, folder 11 and MS 1888, box 59, folder 1.

6.
Bogle,
Blacks in American Films and Television,
296.

7.
Herman Gray, “The Politics of Representation in Network Television,” in
Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America,
ed. Darnell M. Hunt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 161; C. Richard King, “What's Your Name?
Roots,
Race, and Popular Memory in Post–Civil Rights America,” in
African Americans on Television: Race-ing for Ratings,
ed. David J. Leonard and Lisa A Guerrero (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013), 79–80.

8.
Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge, Lauren Berlant, and Manthia Diawara, “On Thinking the Black Public Sphere,”
Public Culture
7 (1994): xi.

9.
Tennessee
1 (1988): 28–31;
Los Angeles Times Magazine,
March 16, 1986.

10.
New York Times,
February 14, 1993.

11.
AR, “Alex Haley Notes,” 1991, ARC, MS 2032, box 5.

12.
William Bruce Wheeler to author, March 12, 2015.

13.
AR, “Alex Haley Notes,” 1991, ARC, MS 2032, box 5.

14.
David L. Wolper with David Fisher,
Producer: A Memoir
(New York: Scribner, 2003), 240–241.

15.
Essence,
February 1992.

16.
Los Angeles Times,
February 11, 1992;
Knoxville News-Sentinel,
March 1, 1992.

17.
Jet,
March 2, 1992.

18.
New York Times,
February 14, 1993.

19.
Knoxville New Sentinel,
March 17, 1992.

20.
People,
October 5, 1992.

21.
Charles Thomas Galbraith, telephone interview with author, September 2014.

22.
Philip Nobile, “Alex Haley's Advice to Ambrose and Goodwin,” History News Network, July 8, 2002,
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/539
.

23.
Stanley Crouch, “The ‘Roots' of Huckster Haley's Great Fraud,”
Jewish World Review,
January 18, 2002,
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/crouch011802.asp
; Jack Cashill,
Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture
(Nashville: Nelson Current, 2005), 107–20.

24.
Jan Vansina,
Living with Africa
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), 218; Richard Marius, “Alexander Murray Palmer Haley,”
Tennessee Encyclopedia,
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=586
.

25.
See Nobile's castigation of Gates at
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/mapleparklibrary/alley/doc03.html
.

26.
Boston Globe,
November 3, 1998;
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature,
ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Nellie Y. McKay (New York: Norton, 1997).

27.
Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's ROOTS
(Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 2007).

28.
Los Angeles Times,
March 7, 2005.

Index

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ABC (American Broadcasting Company),
161
,
164
,
166
–68,
181

Achebe, Chinua,
189

African, The
(Courlander),
183
–84,
188
–94,
197
,
202

African American Lives
(miniseries),
225

African Studies Association,
101

Alexander, Lamar,
210
,
212
,
218
,
226

Alexander, Margaret Walker

see
Walker, Margaret

Ambrose, Stephen,
223

antebellum South,
122
,
185
,
199

anti-Semitism,
53
,
64
–65

Asner, Edward,
161
,
164
,
192

“Assertive Spirit Stirring Negroes” (Handler),
56

Autobiography of Malcolm X, The

critical reception,
105
,
137
,
183

Doubleday and,
88
,
176

fiction vs. nonfiction in,
77
–78

Grove Press and,
90

Hollywood and,
120
–21,
217

Malcolm X's view of,
58

“missing chapters,”
77

writing of,
60
–61,
77
–79

publication,
91
–95

publishers and,
83
–84,
88
,
90

sales,
70
,
102
,
127
,
129
,
157
,
172
,
220

Saturday Evening Post
and,
79
,
83

shaping of,
65
–66,
68
,
17

see also
Malcolm X

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,
159
,
162

Baldwin, James,
26
,
30
,
38
,
41
,
47
,
50
,
102
,
109
,
120
,
152
,
155

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation),
223

Beat poets,
34
,
90

“Before This Anger” (Haley)

difficulties in finishing manuscript,
119
–22

early stages of writing,
81
–82

Haley's trip to Africa and,
110
–15

lecture on,
189

magazine writing and,
102

Palmerstown
and,
208

publishers' concerns about,
107
–10,
128
–29,
176

Readers Digest
and,
106

research for,
84
,
97
–99,
106
–7,
119
–22

Bennett, Lerone,
31

Berger, George,
187
–88,
191
–94,
196
–97,
222

Birmingham demonstrations,
57
,
62
–64,
67

see also
Connor, Bull; King, Martin Luther Jr.

Birth of a Nation, The,
158

Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, The
(Gutman),
145

Black History Month,
226

“Black Is Beautiful” movement,
124

“Black Merchants of Hate” (Haley),
51
–53

Black Muslims,
52
–53,
56
,
64
,
70
,
83
–86,
88
,
94

see also
Muhammad, Elijah; Nation of Islam

Black Muslims in America
(Lincoln),
48

Black Power movement,
65
,
73
,
102
,
123
–24

Black Scholar
journal,
123

Blassingame, John,
145
–46

Blinn, William,
161

Blau, Louis,
121
,
132
–33,
177
,
180
,
187
,
196
–97,
213
,
220

“Booker” (Haley),
129

Booker, Jimmy,
62
,
69

Brando, Marlon,
171
,
206
–7

“Bridging the Black Generation Gap” workshop,
124

Brooks, Millie,
6

Brown, H. Rap,
65
,
123

Brown v. Board of Education
(1954),
31

Bruchac, Joseph,
189
,
194
–96

Burton, LeVar,
162
,
218

Butler, Norman 3X,
87

Callagy, Robert,
195
–96

Capote, Truman,
34
,
117
,
147
–48

Carmichael, Stokely,
123

Carnegie, Andrew,
95

Carnegie Corporation,
133

Carter, Jimmy,
150

Carver, George Washington,
12

Casey, Bernie,
206

Children's Defense Fund,
220

Christian Science Monitor,
32
,
131

City University of New York,
133
,
145

Clansman, The,
154
,
156
,
158

Clay, Cassius,
69

Clayton, Jim,
213

Cleveland Plain Dealer, The,
124

Clinton, Bill,
44

Collins, Juliette,
63

Columbia Pictures,
120
–21,
133

Columbia University,
123
,
194

Connor, Bull,
62
,
64

Connors, Chuck,
161

Conrad, Barnaby,
34
–35,
38
,
121

Cornell University,
1

Coronet
magazine,
29
,
41

Cosmopolitan
magazine,
41

Courlander, Harold,
183
,
188
–95,
197
–98,
203
–4,
222
–23

Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories, The
(Courlander),
189

Crouch, Stanley,
224

Curtin, Philip,
119
,
153

Davis, David Brion,
182

Davis, Miles,
49
–51,
103

Davis, Ossie,
62
,
89
,
133
,
206

Davis, Sammy Jr.,
103
–4

Dee, Ruby,
133

Dell Publishing,
90
,
110
,
129
,
176
–77

desegregation,
26
,
43
,
50
,
72

Diller, Phyllis,
41

Dixon, Thomas,
154
–58

Doubleday and Company,
58
–59,
64
,
66
,
73
,
79
,
82
,
87
–88,
90
,
97
,
105
,
108
–9,
121
–22,
128
–30,
132

Drew, Lisa,
82
,
88
,
120
–21,
128
,
134
–37,
141
,
147
,
184
,
213

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt),
48
,
65
,
95
,
205

early writing career, Alex Haley

connections with entertainment celebrities,
41
–42

magazine assignments,
41
–43

Malcolm X and,
53
–54

NOI and,
45
–52

Readers Digest
and,
42
–45

Saturday Evening Post
and,
51
–52

Show Business Illustrated
and,
49
–51

Sims, George and,
39

struggles,
37
–39

unpublished autobiographical novel,
39
–41

Williams, Miller and,
43
–44

see also Readers Digest

Ebony
magazine,
31
,
172

Ellis, Edye,
213

Ellison, Ralph,
26
,
30
,
40
–41,
185

Faces of America
(miniseries),
226

Fast, Howard,
55

Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI),
46
,
51
–52,
60
,
77
,
88
,
227

Federal Writers Project,
184

fellowships

Ford Fellowship,
185

Guggenheim,
188

Rosenwald Fellowship,
185

Ferguson, Charles,
44
,
55
,
58
,
80

Fiedler, Leslie,
154
–55

Finding Your Roots
(miniseries),
226

Fisher, Mattie,
6

Fisher, Murray,
50
,
128
,
132
,
134
–39,
197
,
222

Fofana, Kebba Kanga,
112
–14,
126
,
148
,
178
–79,
198
–99

“For My People” (Walker),
184

Ford Fellowship,
185

Ford, Gerald,
149

Frankel, Marvin E.,
187
–88,
191
,
222

Frazier, E. Franklin,
101

Fremont-Smith, Eliot,
92
,
183
,
221

Frost, David,
131

Galbraith, Charles Thomas,
222
–23

Gambia,
44
,
106
–7,
110
–12,
118
–20,
126
,
146
,
148
–49,
153
,
161
–62,
171
,
178
–82,
198
–99,
217
–18,
221
,
223

Gandhi, Mahatma,
151

Garvey, Marcus,
48
,
65

Gates, Henry Louis Jr.,
225
–26

Genovese, Eugene,
145
–46

Goldwater, Barry,
84

Gone with the Wind
(film),
156
,
158
,
166
–68

Gone with the Wind
(Mitchell),
99
,
154
,
156

Goodwin, Doris Kearns,
223

Grammy Awards,
44

Gregory, Dick,
41
,
50
,
123
,
218

Grove Press,
90
–91,
108

Guggenheim fellowship,
188

Gunther, John,
110
,
212

Gutman, Herbert G.,
145

Hailey, Arthur,
151

Haiti Singing
(Courlander),
189

Haley Committee,
111
–12

Handler, M. S. “Mike,”
56
–57,
72
,
75
–76

Hansen, Marcus,
151

“Harlem Nobody Knows, The” (Haley),
32

Harrell, Rich,
32

Hatcher, Zeona,
14
–16,
20
,
216

Hate That Hate Produced, The,
45
,
49

Hawkins, John,
222

“Henning, U.S.A.” (Haley),
211
,
219

Hentoff, Nat,
50

Herskovits, Melville,
100
–1

Hicks, James,
31
,
62

History News Network,
223

Hoodwinked
(Cashill),
224

Hoover, J. Edgar,
52
,
227

Horne, Lena,
41
–42,
80

“How to Co-Exist with Negroes,”
79

Howe, Irving,
150

“I'm Talking to You, White Man” (article),
83

In Cold Blood
(Capote),
117

Inside Africa
(Gunther),
110

Inside U.S.A.
(Gunther),
212

Internal Revenue Service (IRS),
79
,
99
,
105
,
108
,
130
,
133

Invisible Man
(Ellison),
30
,
40

Jackson, James,
100
,
107
,
211
,
217

Jackson, Jesse,
218

Jackson, Mahalia,
43

Jackson State University, Mississippi,
185
–86

Jeffries, Leonard,
133
,
203
,
210
,
216

Jet
magazine,
31
,
218

Johns Hopkins University,
153

Johnson, John H.,
31