Alex Haley: 1937 Alcorn Football's Waterboy
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Jafus (Thinker)
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Cool!!
j-state_tiger06
(T'06 for short)
Alcorn doing the damn thang!!....sort of! :tup:
One of my professors had an original picture of an Alcorn team that featured a yound Medgar Evers......I didn't even know he played ball at Alcorn.
One of my professors had an original picture of an Alcorn team that featured a yound Medgar Evers......I didn't even know he played ball at Alcorn.
JROCK
Preeminent
I remember.....
As an undergrad Alex Haley visiting Southern. He spoke in the F.G. Clark Activity Center (minidome). The fire marshall surely could have closed the dome down. All seats were taken and people were sitting on the steps between seats. He did mention his undergrad experience at Alcorn. The SWAC member schools & HBCU's in general have surely had our share of students that impacted the world.
As an undergrad Alex Haley visiting Southern. He spoke in the F.G. Clark Activity Center (minidome). The fire marshall surely could have closed the dome down. All seats were taken and people were sitting on the steps between seats. He did mention his undergrad experience at Alcorn. The SWAC member schools & HBCU's in general have surely had our share of students that impacted the world.
Tigerpride
THE Logical ONE
Elizabeth City, Alabama A&M and Alcorn....okay...that's a bit much. Did he ever graduate??
Jafus (Thinker)
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Tigerpride,
Good question. Take it for what it was worth. My wife just mention to me when I told her about this pciture, that it is her understanding that Alex Haley's father or mother spent some time teaching at then Alabama A & M / Normal High School, which would have given him some opportunity to ...
???
Maybe some Alabama A & M can elaborate.
Trying to put all of this together. I am interested by the Elizabeth City State part of the equation, as well.
Good question. Take it for what it was worth. My wife just mention to me when I told her about this pciture, that it is her understanding that Alex Haley's father or mother spent some time teaching at then Alabama A & M / Normal High School, which would have given him some opportunity to ...
???
Maybe some Alabama A & M can elaborate.
Trying to put all of this together. I am interested by the Elizabeth City State part of the equation, as well.
Normal1875
A&M #1
Re: Haley
Haley's dad taught at A&M and was good friends with W.C. Handy "the father of the blues" who was then band director at AAMU...he spent the majority of his childhood on Normals' Hill.
There are even some references to AAMU in the book & movie "Queen"(halle berry)...It was the only school for blacks in northern ala who wished to receive an education. Haley's family is from the Florence,Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia area...and the plantation seen in the movie "Queen" still has some remnants standing along with the slave cemetary where most of Haley's family are entombed.
Haley's dad taught at A&M and was good friends with W.C. Handy "the father of the blues" who was then band director at AAMU...he spent the majority of his childhood on Normals' Hill.
There are even some references to AAMU in the book & movie "Queen"(halle berry)...It was the only school for blacks in northern ala who wished to receive an education. Haley's family is from the Florence,Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia area...and the plantation seen in the movie "Queen" still has some remnants standing along with the slave cemetary where most of Haley's family are entombed.
Jafus (Thinker)
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Thanks, TRU3000
Normal1875
A&M #1
no problem bruh!....
Seeing Spots
Joyful Woman!
I found several biographies that mention Alcorn. Here is one found at Africanpubs.com:
PERSONAL
Born August 11, 1921, in Ithaca, New York, United States; died of cardiac arrest, February 10, 1992, in Seattle, Washington, United States; son of Simon Alexander (a professor) and Bertha George (a teacher; maiden name, Palmer) Haley; married Nannie Branch, 1941 (divorced, 1964); married Juliette Collins, 1964 (divorced); children: (first marriage) Lydia Ann, William Alexander; (second marriage) Cynthia Gertrude. Education: Attended Alcorn Agricultural & Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University); attended Elizabeth City Teachers College, 1937-39. Memberships: Authors Guild, Society of Magazine Writers.
Alex Haley Biographies:
The Black Press U.S.A., Iowa State University Press, 1990.
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 8, 1978, Volume 12, 1980.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 38: Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers, Gale, 1985.
Black Collegian, September/October, 1985.
Christianity Today, May 6, 1977.
Ebony, April, 1977.
Forbes, February 15, 1977.
BTW, he didn't graduate from Alcorn on Elizabeth City. He left college and entered the Coast Guard. His book Queen mentions Alcorn and his life and decisions about going to college.
@ some folk!Anyway WAY TO GO ALCORN! Keep up the good work attracting great minds to the "Reservation"!
Blacknbengal
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Which one is him?
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He's laying on the ground in the middle