Roots: The Next Generations

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Roots: The Next Generations

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ABC | Release Date: February 18, 1979
Starring: John Rubinstein, Lee Chamberlin, Georg Stanford Brown, Brock Peters, Beah Richards, Harry Morgan, Diahann Carroll, Debbie Allen, Kene Holliday, Andy Griffith, Roosevelt Grier, Robert Culp, Paul Winfield, Dorian Harewood, Roger E. Mosley, Lynne Moody, Al Freeman Jr., Barbara Barrie, Marc Singer, Greg Morris, Norman Fell, Damon Evans, Hal Williams, Richard Thomas, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Ossie Davis, Irene Cara, Ruby Dee, Bernie Casey, Pam Grier, Stan Shaw, Percy Rodríguez, Dina Merrill, Claudia McNeil, Avon Long, Paul Koslo, James Earl Jones, Rafer Johnson, Slim Gaillard, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, James Daly, Michael Constantine, James Broderick, Marlon Brando, Carmen McRae, George Voskovec
Summary: Continuing the story of Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors, this award-winning sequel to Roots picks up the story at the conclusion of the Civil War, and covers the significant historic events that impacted Haley and his family, from Reconstruction and Jim Crow, through World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.Continuing the story of Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors, this award-winning sequel to Roots picks up the story at the conclusion of the Civil War, and covers the significant historic events that impacted Haley and his family, from Reconstruction and Jim Crow, through World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The epic account concludes during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s when the author himself tracks down and eventually meets his distant kin in Gambia, West Africa while preparing to write what would become his ground--breaking novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family.… Expand
Genre(s): Drama
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