Alex Haley’s work has also been marred by claims of plagiarism. When author Jonathan Eig revealed dramatic differences in what Martin Luther King Jr. said about Malcolm X in an interview with Haley, his legacy took another hit.
have found records of Toby — the enslaved man Haley believed to be Kinte — living in the United States years before Haley said Kinte arrived on a specific ship. Toby also died years before Haley said Toby’s daughter Kizzie was born.
Little of this would matter if Haley had not been so insistent on the book’s truthfulness. Indeed, a huge part of its appeal was that Haley had allegedly done something that few other Black Americans had been able to do: trace his family all the way back to Africa. There was a bigger problem with the book, too. In 1977, two writers sued Haley claiming significant portions of “Roots” were plagiarized from their novels. The lawsuit from Margaret Walker, author of the 1966 novel “Jubilee,” was eventually thrown out, but Haley ultimately paid a
to Harold Courlander and admitted that passages of Courlander’s 1967 novel “The African” had “found their way” into “Roots.”Which brings us to Haley’s first book, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley.” Though classified as an autobiography, it was actually written by Haley, based on more than 50 interviews conducted between 1963 and 1965.
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