Alex Haley Family - It was August 11, 1921. Ithaca, New York. Simon Alexander Haley was a graduate student at Cornell University - agriculture - his wife Bertha Palmer Haley studying music
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Black in Period Films on X: "Irene Cara as Bertha Palmer Haley in Roots: The Next Generation (1979). https://t.co/6vNN3Hzp7p" / X
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