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(0)Alex Haley
Author
Language
English
Description
Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events.
When Roots was first published forty years ago, the book electrified the nation: it received a Pulitzer Prize and was a #1 New York Times bestseller for 22 weeks. The celebrated miniseries that followed a year later was...
When Roots was first published forty years ago, the book electrified the nation: it received a Pulitzer Prize and was a #1 New York Times bestseller for 22 weeks. The celebrated miniseries that followed a year later was...
2) Roots
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1976
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
Physical Desc
viii, 587 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree/Steck Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates events in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, childhood which sowed the seeds for his activism for equal rights for people, regardless of their color.
5) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Wolper Organization
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
6 videocassettes of 6 (U-matic) (286 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"'QUEEN, ' the three part, six hour mini-series ... chronicles the remarkable story of Alex Haley's mixed-race grandmother. In telling the story of her origins and life, the mini-series revealed the struggles and injustices experienced by slave women and the wives of plantation owners."--1993 Peabody Award entry form excerpt. Queen is Haley's paternal grandmother, the daughter of James Jackson, Jr., a white plantation owner and Easter, a slave on...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (690 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s and '70s, when Alex himself begins his research into the discovery of his roots.
8) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hrs., 29 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.