During the civil rights struggle of the mid twentieth century many men stood out, such as Martin Luther King, Jr, Medger Evers, and Malcolm X. Famed author Alex Haley, who wrote “Roots; The Saga of an ...

On Monday, officials from Annapolis and West Africa will gather at the Alex Haley Memorial ... in 1999 to commemorate Haley, who died in 1992, and his 1976 novel “Roots: The Saga of an American ...