I n a packed Royce Hall, he spoke about Malcolm X’s life and legacy, fielded questions from students and discussed his research for his upcoming book. “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” which was published three years later, was a combination of fact and fiction that traced Haley’s family history back to a single ancestor kidnapped from Africa and sold into slavery in America. 14, 1973, Haley visited UCLA at the invitation of the now-defunct Associated Students Speakers Program.
In Malcolm X’s short life, it’s unlikely there was a writer closer to him than Alex Haley.īetween 1963 and the Black leader’s assassination in early 1965, the two men spent nearly a thousand hours in conversation in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment for what would become “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” today widely considered a foundational text of the struggle for Black rights in 20th-century America.
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