10. Alex Haley to Alexander Alpert, December 23, 1970, box 6, folder 4, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
11. Alex Haley, “Search: My Mental Model” note, n.d. [ca. 1974], box 10, folder 4, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
12. Ebou Manga to Alex Haley, November 1, 1966, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
13. Alex Haley to Maurice Ragsdale, December 14, 1966, box 3, folder 10, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Alex Haley to Dr. and Mrs. John Mahoney, March 16, 1967, box 3, folder 10, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
18. M.D. N’ Jie to Alex Haley, March 23, 1967, box 3, folder 10, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
19. Alex Haley, “Working Calendar for Roots, Inserts for Chapter One, p. 262,” n.d. [ca. 1975], box 29, folder 34, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
20. Ebou Manga, interview by Anne Romaine, March 4, 1992, transcript, pp. 4–7, box 3, folder 15, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
21. “Top American Writer Here on Working Visit,” Gambia News Bulletin, April 11, 1967; David P. Gamble, “Postmortem: A Study of the Gambian Section of Alex Haley’s ‘Roots,’” Gambian Studies, no. 39 (2000): 18–19.
22. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, April 23, 1967, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
23. Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, April 25, 1967, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
24. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, May 13, 1967, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
25. Alex Haley, “May 12, 1967,” n.d. [ca. 1974], box 10, folder 1, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
26. Alex Haley, “Safari, into the Provinces, Tuesday, May 16, 1967” notes, n.d. [ca. June 1967], box 29, folder 33, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
27. Ibid.
28. See box 8, folder 5, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
29. “Tape #9, Haley,” transcript, n.d. [ca. May 1967], p. 4, box 29, folder 33, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
30. “Tape #9, Haley,” transcript, n.d. [ca. May 1967], pp. 1–2, box 29, folder 33, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
31. Alex Haley, “Safari, into the Provinces, Tuesday, May 16, 1967,” notes, n.d. [ca. June 1967], box 29, folder 33, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
32. Haley, Roots, 576.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., 577.
35. “Tape #2, Radio Gambia,” transcript, n.d. [ca. May 1967], pp. 2–3, box 29, folder 33, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
36. Haley, Roots, 578–79.
37. Mark Ottaway, “Tangled Roots,” Times (London), April 10, 1977, 17.
38. Bakari Sidibe to Alex Haley, May 30, 1973, box 30, folder 24, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
39. Ibid.
40. “Griot Embodies Entertainment” notecard, n.d. [ca. 1974], box 3, folder 4, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
41. “Searching, Motivation,” n.d. [ca. 1974], misc. box, no folder number, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
3. SPEAKING ROOTS
1. “During Civil Rights Demonstrations” notecard, n.d. [ca. 1974], box 1, folder 3, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
2. See lecture booking contracts in box 21, folder 6, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
3. Alex Haley, “Search Chapter 7,” n.d. [ca. 1975], box 1, folder 8, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
4. “Alex Haley Is . . . ,” W. Colston Leigh Bureau brochure, n.d. [ca. 1971], box 105, folder 001, Wolper Collection, USC.
5. Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, April 10, 1967, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
6. Alex Haley, “Search Chapter 7,” n.d. [ca. 1975], box 1, folder 8, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
7. Michael Kirkhorn, “A Saga of Slavery That Made the Actors Weep,” New York Times, June 27, 1976.
8. Alex Haley to June Glenn, September 25, 1970, box 10, folder 1, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
9. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, April 23, 1967, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
10. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, n.d. [ca. April 1967], box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
11. Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, May 16, 1967, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT; Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, May 28, 1967, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
12. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, May 28, 1967, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
13. Ibid.
14. Harry Gilroy, “A Book in a New Form Earns $2-Million for Truman Capote,” New York Times, December 31, 1965; George Plimpton, “The Story behind a Nonfiction Novel,” New York Times, January 16, 1966.
15. Gilroy, “Book.”
16. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, May 28, 1967, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
17. Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, May 29, 1967, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
18. Alex Haley to Lisa Drew, July 17, 1967, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
19. Quoted in Robert Norrell, Alex Haley and the Books That Changed a Nation (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015), 122.
20. Alex Haley, “Working Report: ‘Before This Anger,’” n.d. [ca. 1967], box 2, folder 30, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
21. Alex Haley to Cham Joof, July 29, 1967, box 6, folder 5, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
22. Alex Haley to Friends & Committee Joof, Salla & Jallow, August 11, 1967, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT; Alex Haley to R.C.E. Lander, July 26, 1967, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT; R.C.E. Lander to Alex Haley, August 7, 1967, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT; Dorris Maguire to Alex Haley, August 9, 1967, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT; Vaughn Brown to Alex Haley, August 17, 1967, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
23. Alex Haley to Cham Joof, July 29, 1967, box 6, folder 5, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
24. Gary Mills and Elizabeth Mills, “The Genealogist’s Assessment of Alex Haley’s Roots,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 72 (1984): 42.
25. Alex Haley to Friends & Committee Joof, Salla & Jallow, August 11, 1967, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
26. Frank Chin to Alex Haley, n.d. [ca. 1969], box 3, folder 11, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
27. Alex Haley to Fulton Oursler Jr., July 29, 1969, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
28. Ibid.
29. Henry James, A Small Boy and Others (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913), 160.
30. James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955), 19.
31. When Haley wrote these words he was collaborating with Malcolm X on the black Muslim leader’s autobiography, and it is easy to see this essay as part of Haley’s efforts to make it clear that the two men held different political philosophies. Haley notes in the essay that Malcolm X had called “practically every Negro leader in the nation” an Uncle Tom. Alex Haley, “In ‘Uncle Tom’ Are Our Guilt and Hope,” New York Times, March 1, 1964.
32. Alex Haley, “Separate Insert: Met with Reader’s Digest, p. 239–242,” n.d., box 29, folder 34, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
33. Ibid.
34. Lou Blau, interview with Anne Romaine, August 9, 1989, transcript, pp. 7–8, box 2, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT; Columbia Pictures to Alex Haley, April 7, 1969, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
35. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, December 29, 1970, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
36. Ibid.
37. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, February 15, 1971, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
38. Ibid.
39. Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, February 5, 1971, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
40. Alex Haley to Elaine and Wally Wiser, March 4, 1972, box 3, folder 1, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
41. Alex Haley, “My Furthest Back Person—‘The African,’” New York Times, July 16, 1972.
42. Peggy Murrell, “Black Genealogy,” Wall Street Journal, March 9, 1972.
44. Paula Glenn to Alex Haley, July 20, 1972, box 10, folder 2, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
45. Mary Wheeler to Alex Haley, July 25, 1972, box 10, folder 2, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
46. Rosemary Lyons to Alex Haley, July 16, 1972, box 10, folder 2, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
47. J. Fred Coots to Alex Haley, July 16, 1972, box 10, folder 2, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
48. Mary Bagley to David Frost, May 4, 1972, box 10, folder 4, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
49. Phyllis Woodard to Alex Haley, April 21, 1972, box 10, folder 2, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
50. Lorrie Mikesell to David Frost, April 20, 1972, box 10, folder 3, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
51. Walter Green to David Frost, April 24, 1972, box 10, folder 2, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
52. Alex Haley to Calre Ward, June 12, 1972, box 10, folder 2, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
53. Lois Alexander to Alex Haley, July 26, 1972, box 10, folder 4, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
54. B.K. Joshi to Alex Haley, January 21, 1973, box 10, folder 6, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
55. Genevieve Abel Stephenson to Alex Haley, August 2, 1972, box 10, folder 2, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
56. Alex Haley to Charles Anderson, February 13, 1971, box 10, folder 1, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
57. Alex Haley to Harry Edwards, June 12, 1970, box 10, folder 1, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
58. Bernice Reagon, interview by Anne Romaine, March 3, 1992, transcript, p. 3, box 3, folder 16, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
59. Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, August 18, 1967, box 6, folder 5, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
60. Alex Haley to Elaine and Wally Wiser, March 4, 1972, box 3, folder 1, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
61. Jean Blackwell Hutson to Alex Haley, November 30, 1972, box 10, folder 3, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
62. Jean Blackwell Hutson to Alex Haley, January 19, 1977, box 11A, folder 8, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
63. C. Eric Lincoln, interview with Anne Romaine, June 11, 1992, transcript, p. 8, box 3, folder 14, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
64. “Anecdotes about Dad” notecard, n.d. [ca. 1974], box 1, folder 3, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin; “Notes on Meeting with Jan Vansina,” n.d. [ca. 1967], box 16, folder 3, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
65. Alex Haley to Fulton Oursler Jr., July 29, 1969, box 3, folder 12, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
66. Alex Haley to Michael Kirley, January 26, 1971, box 10, folder 1, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
67. Alex Haley to Elaine, October 20, 1972, box 10, folder 3, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
68. Alex Haley to Mid York Library for Utica Observer Dispatch, June 10, 1969, box 3, folder 11, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
69. Frank Chin to Alex Haley, n.d. [ca. 1969], box 3, folder 11, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
70. Gil Noble to Alex Haley, n.d. [ca. October 1972], box 10, folder 5, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
4. WRITING ROOTS
1. Alex Haley to Michael Blow, November 30, 1973, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
2. Alex Haley to Fulton Oursler, July 29, 1969, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
3. Jeffrey Elliot, “The Roots of Alex Haley’s Writing Career,” Writer’s Digest, August 1980, 36.
4. Alex Haley to Fulton Oursler, July 29, 1969, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
5. Alex Haley, “Search Chapter 8,” n.d. [ca. 1974], box 1, folder 9, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
6. Alex Haley to Curtis Strong, September 25, 1972, box 16, folder 6, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
7. Alex Haley, “7/2/69” Roots draft, misc. box, no folder number, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin; “The Journey: August 20” Roots draft, misc. box, no folder number, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin; “October 3, 1973” Roots draft, box 2, folder 5, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin; “October 4, 1973” Roots draft, box 2, folder 5, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin; “August 11, 1975” Roots draft, box 2, folder 8, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
8. Alex Haley, “Writing Roots—2 Major Fetishes,” n.d. [ca. 1976], box 14, folder 10, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
9. Alex Haley to Fulton Oursler, July 29, 1969, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
10. Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (New York: Doubleday, 1976), vii.
11. Myrna Oliver, “Murray Fisher, 69,” Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2002.
12. Alex Haley to Murray Fisher, October 9, 1075, box 10, folder 8, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
13. Alex Haley to Murray Fisher, July 18, 1970, box 29, folder 25, Alex Haley Collection, UT; Alex Haley to Lafe Todd, December 12, 1972, box 10, folder 3, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
14. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, December 29, 1970, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
15. See Murray Fisher comments on drafts of Roots in box 14, folder 1, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
16. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, November 3, 1972, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
17. Alex Haley, Roots draft marked “1802–1,” n.d. [ca. 1974], box 2, folder 14, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
18. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, May 18, 1971, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
19. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, July 27, 1971, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
20. Ibid.
21. Alex Haley, “Note: Unused Selection Material,” n.d. [ca. 1971], box 29, folder 35, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
22. See Alex Haley, “Unused Selection Material,” box 29, folder 35, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
23. Alex Haley, “Book Outline Parts II and III Notebook,” n.d. [ca. 1973], box 29, folder 23, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
24. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, March 15, 1975, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
25. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, March 11, 1973, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
26. Ibid.
27. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, July 11, 1973, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT; Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, October 5, 1972, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
28. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, May 5, 1973, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
29. Ibid.
30. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, August 10, 1973, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
31. Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, August 16, 1973, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
32. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, October 24, 1973, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
33. Ibid.
34. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, November 3, 1973, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
35. Alex Haley to Michael Blow, November 30, 1973, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
36. Alex Haley to Ray Possiel, June 7, 1974, “misc.” box, no folder number, Alex Haley Collection, Goodwin.
37. Victoria Crews to Alex Haley, July 9, 1974, box 10, folder 6, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
38. Caryl Faulk to Alex Haley, June 4, 1974, box 10, folder 6, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
39. Rolfe Neill to Alex Haley, May 28, 1974, box 10, folder 6, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
40. Alex Haley to Rolfe Neill, May 9, 1974, box 10, folder 6, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
41. Stan Margulies, interview by Quincy Troupe, April 18, 1977, transcript, pp. 21–22, David Wolper Collection, USC.
42. David Wolper to Stan Margulies, May 23, 1974, box 13, folder 30, Stan Margulies Collection, USC.
43. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, March 10, 1974, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
44. Alex Haley to Steve Sheppard, May 3, 1974, box 3, folder 25, Ann
e Romaine Collection, UT.
45. Alex Haley to John Hawkins, March 24, 1974, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
46. Reynolds cautioned Haley, “It’s awfully hard to make a motion picture deal without the book written and again, motion picture people talk, know of your Columbia deal and wonder why there isn’t a book.” Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, May 3, 1974, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT; Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, May 6, 1974, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
47. Harold Cohn to Wolper Productions, August 28, 1974, Alex Haley Collection, UT; Paul Reynolds to Lou Blau, August 12, 1974, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
48. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, November 7, 1974, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
49. Paul Reynolds to Lou Blau, October 26, 1976, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
50. Stan Margulies, interview by Quincy Troupe, April 18, 1977, transcript, pp. 22–23, David Wolper Collection, USC.
51. Paul Reynolds to Alex Haley, September 25, 1974, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
52. Stan Margulies to Alex Haley, December 26, 1974, box 3, folder 10, Alex Haley Collection, UT.
53. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, January 4, 1975, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
54. Lisa Drew to Paul Reynolds, December 11, 1974, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
55. Lisa Drew to Paul Reynolds, February 3, 1975, box 3, folder 27, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
56. Lisa Drew, interview with Anne Romaine, January 27, 1989, transcript, p. 7, box 3, folder 10, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
57. Ibid.
58. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, May 16, 1975, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
59. Lou Blau to Alex Haley, August 4, 1975, box 10, folder 7, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
60. Alex Haley to Lou Blau, August 11, 1975, box 10, folder 7, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
61. Alex Haley to Paul Reynolds, July 18, 1975, box 3, folder 25, Anne Romaine Collection, UT.
62. Alex Haley to Stan Margulies, June 14, 1975, box 105, folder 001, Wolper Collection, USC.
63. Alex Haley to Murray Fisher, October 9, 1975, box 10, folder 8, Alex Haley Collection, Schomburg.
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