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	whatchusay.com: Diggin' Roots
		She interviewed folks who told her after they watched "Roots" they were inspired to research their own family history, give their children names like "Kizzy" or "Kunta" or begin a quest for a greater understanding of America's cruel and beguiling system of racial oppression.
		It is disturbing that another generation of black youth has come of age without ever having watched "Roots." It is troubling that they have had to rely heavily on technology and the media for their representations of self.
		One of the most revealing aspects of the documentary is the emphasis it places on tracing the impact of "Roots" on a generation.
	www.whatchusay.com /archives/2002/01/diggin_roots.html

	Decade of 1970
		ABC-TV begins televising the Roots mini-series (which would go on to be the most watched mini-series in history), based on Alex Haley's book
		This powerful story, tracing Haley's lineage back to the days of slavery, was the most-watched miniseries of all time, with 130 million viewers during its initial telecast.
		ROOTS gave millions of people in America a close-up look at what slavery was all about.
	www.famu.edu /famuevents/history2001/1970

	Roots: 25th Anniversary Edition (1977)
		Roots wasn’t the first mini-series to hit TV screens when it first aired in January 1977, and it also wasn’t the one that established the format as a success.
		We’ll likely never see a TV phenomenon like Roots again, but since we can still watch the original on DVD, that’s fine with me! The show took the country by storm and remains the mini-series against which all others must be compared.
		Roots offers a rich and memorable look at history through the eyes of one family, and it’s a terrific experience.
	www.dvdmg.com /roots.shtml

	Roots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roots (TV miniseries), a mini-series based on a novel by Alex Haley
		Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roots

	Black History in Film: ROOTS
		Originally broadcast as a TV mini-series in 1977, Roots is the stirring story of one family's struggle for freedom.
		Roots is the story of one family's struggle for freedom, but it is more than that.
		Alex Haley dramatizes his family roots and tells the story of one family's struggle for freedom.
	www.blackhistoryreview.com /video/Roots.php

	Roots6
		Roots - About Alex Haley and the T.V. Miniseries (Video)
		This is a free geneology website with intructions on how to trace your family's roots.
		With the help of someone from West Africa, he learned that some of the words in his grandmother's stories were like Mandinka words, and that the river she spoke of as 'Kamby Bolong' was probably the Gambia River.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/RootsWeb/Roots6.html

	Roots (mini-series) Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography - Local Color Art
		Roots was a 1977 American television miniseries based on
		The series and its 1979 sequel Roots: The Next Generations featured an impressive cast that included a Who's Who of popular actors of the day as well as an exhaustive list of African American actors at all levels of experience.
		Roots and the book it was adapted from revived interest in oral and geneological history among all segments of the population.
	www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Roots_(mini-series)

	Roots
		"Roots and Roots: The Next Generations." Blacks in American Film and Television: An Encyclopedia.
		Finally, Roots was credited with having a positive impact on race relations, expanding the nation's sense of history.
		Roots also enjoyed unusual social acclaim for a television show.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/roots/roots.htm

	DVDCC.COM: Roots DVD REVIEW
		Roots became the highest rating mini-series ever, which is nice to see, as many quality shows go by unnoticed, and therefore un-influential.
		Roots is about Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame) and how he was taken from his village in Africa, sold as a slave and then taken to the United States.
		Roots is truly a tremendous, moving story to watch from beginning to end, and should be, in this writers opinion required viewing for our young generation for years to come.
	www.dvdcc.com /review.php?roots

	Television Tropes & Idioms - Main.Roots
		First broadcast in 1978, the series was a tremendous success, prompting new public interest in genealogy and, for television, established the Mini Series as a high profile prestige format for prime time.
		A Mini Series presenting a dramatized account about author Alex Haley's family line and their struggles coping with slavery from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his Civil War descendents' liberation.
		Inspired By (rumors and accusations of Haley "massaging" the facts to make a more inspiring story)
	www.gottapost.com /pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Roots

	The Independent Weekly: Exposed Roots
		Alice Randall has aptly noted that Gone With the Wind "is more powerful than history because it is better known than history." Her words are true of Roots as well, and may some day apply to her own novel.
		Alex Haley's tracing of his ancestors to Gambia invigorated readers, but the source of the narrative's strength was all a myth--a myth that will live on as long as exposing Roots remains taboo.
		But the result of his rebellion is unknown; the last six or so chapters of the novel, serialized in The Anglo-African Magazine in 1859 and The Weekly Anglo-African from 1861 to 1862, remain lost, and with it Delany's ultimate response to Stowe's Uncle Tom.
	www.indyweek.com /durham/2002-02-27/ae3.html

	» Roots
		"ROOTS" was the result of this research and it tells an incredible story of one mans family and American slavery.
		Perhaps if more movies like Roots were to be made it might help teach empathy and tolerance for other people and cultures.
		I suppose they slept through the part of the sermon that said "love thy neighbor" and "treat others as you'd like to be treated", etc. It's even sadder to think that many of these attitudes still exist today in the form of racism.
	www.5f1.com /Reviews/Roots/B00005QW6Y/3

	THE ROOTS OF FAMILY
		The TV mini-series "Roots" was a catalyst for many Americans to begin to trace their own family histories.
		Morton says that for those whose roots extend into the former Soviet Union, it's an exciting time to dip into family history, as formerly sealed archives are beginning to be opened to public scrutiny.
		From his own experiences in tracing his family's roots, Kurzweil developed his know-how into a comprehensive volume giving advice and listing sources as diverse as yizkor books, the Encyclopedia Judaica and the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/961101/gen.html

	Roots by Quincy Jones
		Only a fraction of this music was used in the mini-series; oddly, the most familiar piece of music, the often-repeated "Roots Mural Theme," is not by Q but by film composer Gerald Fried, who wrote most of the TV score.
		This project, rushed out in the wake of the 1977 TV mini-series Roots, is about as close as he has come.
		A brief (28 minutes), immaculately-produced and segued suite, Roots quickly traces a timeline from Africa to the Civil War, incorporating ancient and modern African influences (with Letta Mbulu as the featured vocalist), a sea shanty, field hollers and fiddle tunes, snippets of dialogue from Roots actor Lou Gossett, and some Hollywood-style movie cues.
	www.mp3.com /albums/109033/summary.html

	Newa
		NBC's "Today" show -- Katie Couric did a series of shows on "Tracing Family Roots" during the months of August through September 2000
		The children playing "The Game of Roots" in the activity room of the Roots Public Charter School in Northwest Washington one Saturday morning exemplified Hill's enduring concern that young people and old alike need to know and honor their history.
		Hill was a teacher of gifted and talented elementary school children in the Baltimore school system when Haley's "Roots" moved her to action.
	www.gehill.com /news.htm

	Thorn Brids, The
		Like Roots and The Winds of War before it, The Thorn Birds exemplified the miniseries genre--family sagas spanning multiple generations, featuring large, big-name casts, and laden with tales of love, sex, tragedy, and transcendence that kept the audience coming back night after night.
		Produced for an estimated $21 million, The Thorn Birds appeared during the heyday of the network television miniseries, from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, when the form was seen as "the salvation of commercial television." In this context The Thorn Birds stood out for both its controversial qualities and its success.
		In 1996 ABC broadcast a sequel to The Thorn Birds in which Father Ralph and Meggie are again untied, and again struggle with their passion and their consciences.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/T/htmlT/thornbirds/thornbirds.htm

	How to trace your roots
		He said there has been an explosion of interest in tracing family genealogy, and he said it started in 1977 after broadcast of a television mini-series.
		''Roots'' traced the story of a black family from 1750 and the days of slavery.
		''It all started with 'Roots.' It came at the right time and really sparked interest in people about their own heritage,'' he said.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/19990418/LI_002.htm

	Kunta Kinte — Alex Haley Foundation Roots Alex Haley Bio
		The book has been published in 37 languages, and was made into the first week-long television mini-series, viewed by an estimated 130 million people.
		And, Roots initiated such a widespread interest in genealogy research that Haley is considered to be the father of popular genealogy.
		The completed version of Roots was placed on bookshelves in 1976.
	www.kintehaley.org /rootshaleybio.html

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Roots - Original Series - 25th Anniversary Edition [1977]
		Roots was massively popular, triggering a craze for genealogy and paving the way for series like 1979's Holocaust, which similarly raised the public's awareness of the slaughter of the Jews under Hitler.
		Roots is told in the same, accessible televisual language as The Waltons or Bonanza, yet it is never bland or evasive.
		It leaves no doubt as to the torment and abuse suffered by blacks, and although the series' conclusion is fictionally satisfying, for many of the black characters their only hope lies in generations yet unborn.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006FI4D

	ROOTS: THE NEXT GENERATIONS
		In addition to starring in Episodes 1 and 2 of the seven-part mini-series, GSB directed Episode 5, starring Dorian Harewood as Simon Haley, Alex Haley's father.
		." "Roots 2," as it was commonly called, picked up 13 years after the end of "Roots" with the Harvey family having settled in Henning, Tennessee.
		"Roots" author Alex Haley with Georg Stanford Brown on the set of "Roots: The Next Generations"
	members.aol.com /irk23/GSBHP3/roots2.htm

	Roots (1977)
		Roots was the first mini-series to be aired on consecutive nights rather than a single episode per week, and at a time when there were few black actors in serious prime-time offerings, it featured a virtual Who's Who of African-American actors.
		It's also amazing to learn that this high-production-values series was actually low-budget, and that they had to cut corners after spending almost all the money on the first two episodes, or that in order to control the lighting in the slave-hold scene they constructed a set in a Georgia high school gymnasium.
		Just as Haley's search for his roots began with the words "Kunta Kinte" and "gambi balongo" that he heard from his aunts, and the story they told him about Kunta's enslavement, Episode 1 chronicles Kunta's capture while he was seeking a log suitable for making into a drum.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=6211&buy=closed&PID=10096930&Tab=reviews&CID=18

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	"Roots" (1977) (mini)
		It was considered a revolutionary approach to programming a mini-series, since most minis were aired once or twice a week over several weeks' time.
		In 1977 I was 10 years old, and all I remember is the majority of the city where I live was watching Roots each day for a week.
		It was revealed years later that the reason the network did this was so that they get the show "out of the way" in a hurry because they felt, nobody would watch the story if it aired over a longer period of time.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0075572

	titledetail.asp?dn=10300
		Winner of nine Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series, the mini-series “Roots” aired in January of 1977 to an audience of an estimated 130 million viewers.
		Based on the novel "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" by Alex Haley, it captivated America with the realistic dramatization of slavery and the struggle for freedom.
		ROOTS: EPISODES 1 & 2 (#10299 / DVD / NR)
	www.cfv.org /titledetail.asp?dn=10300

	Amazon.com: Video: Roots (1977)
		This is a classic series detailing the slavery trade in the US, through almost 200 yrs of history up the Civil War (Roots the Next Generation).
		I first viewed a few of the episodes of Roots in the 8th grade and was astounded at the age of 13 over the historical fallacies.
		Eventually after Kunta's story comes the next generation of Roots taking place around the Civil War, blacks are free in the North but the same old story continues in the south,although now blacks are now beginnging to fight back.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302571251?v=glance

	Pineae Greenhouse - Mini Rose Series
		Do not shear until roots have reached the sides of the pot.
		This program information is primarily for production from rooted liners.
		Growers should ALWAYS trial any chemical, at the label rate, on a small group of plants before applying to the entire crop.
	www.pineae.com /cultural_notes.html

	Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
		Original series' fans, African-American history buffs, fans of thoughtful, character-driven drama find plenty in engrossing drama.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=10410

	Rich Man, Poor Man
		This was master storytelling on a grand level and it was never equaled...not even by ROOTS (I might get lynched for saying that, but it's my opinion and I'm sticking to it).
		(I guess with the possible exception of Roots - which might get the edge because it was more important - but I thought this show was better made.Rich Man Poor Man had everything.
		The cast was superb led by Edward Asner, who won a well deserved Emmy as Axel Jordache and a mesmerizing star-making performance from Nick Nolte as Tom Jordache.
	www.jumptheshark.com /r/richmanpoorman.htm

	NPR : Roots Celebration
		The Tavis Smiley Show, January 22, 2002 · On Monday January 23, 1977, Alex Haley's Roots, a riveting 8-part mini-series premiered on ABC.
		This week Host Tavis Smiley will be interviewing members of the original cast, members of the Haley Family, and others involved with the Roots Project.
		Today, Host Tavis Smiley interviews Lynne Moody who played the character of "Irene," Alex Haley's great grandmother.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1136730

	Keppler Speakers: Tracey Gold
		She made an auspicious television debut in the award winning mini-series Roots and eventually enjoyed seven years on the immensely popular ABC comedy series Growing Pains, after which she returned to drama with several movies of the week.
		She also enjoyed seven years on the immensely popular ABC comedy series Growing Pains, after which she returned to drama with several movies of the week.
		Tracey was first diagnosed with anorexia at age 12 by her pediatrician, and fortunately recovered after four months of psychiatric treatment.
	www.kepleroncampus.com /speakers/goldtracey.asp

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