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Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Fearful of violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her father's black genealogy and then was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was missing in family history. Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it's not just their shock and her mother's shame...
3) Roots
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, that follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War where Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
4) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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