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The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
Alex Haley
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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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