Alex Haley
1) Roots
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This "bold...extraordinary...blockbuster..." (Newsweek magazine) begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex Haley was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that...
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This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative...
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2007
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One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National...
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2000
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In 1855, thoroughly Southern student Fletcher Randall leaves his father's North Carolina plantation to attend Princeton University. There he is exposed to different opinions about slavery and the plantation life, and he begins to conspire to bring a mass exodus of slaves through the Underground Railroad. His chief helper is a black slave named Harpin' John, whose harmonica music will play a major role in the escape plan, set for Christmas Eve.
10) Roots
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[2007]
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Chronicles a black man's search for his heritage and reveals an epic panorama of America's past.
16) Roots: the gift
Pub. Date
2007
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Kunta Kinte and Fiddler lead desperate runaways through a network of safe havens to a getaway boat. They load the runaways into the boat...but there's room for one more passenger. A choice must be made; a Mandinka warrior can never abandon his friend.
17) Roots
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[2016]
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Tells the story of an African slave sold to colonial America and his descendants.
18) Malcolm X
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c2010
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Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having...
19) Malcolm X
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1992.
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Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
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