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Black History Month: Alex Haley was chief journalist of the Coast Guard after WWII – The Times Herald
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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