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	Roots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley
		American roots music or American folk music, early styles of American music
		Roots revival, the revival of the traditional musical styles of earlier generations
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roots (132 words)

	Roots (TV miniseries) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roots was a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family, his critically acclaimed genealogical novel.
		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 genealogical history among all segments of the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roots_(TV_miniseries) (335 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> roots
		Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley
		American roots music or American folk music, early styles of American music
		Roots revival, the revival of the traditional musical styles of earlier generations
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/roots (88 words)

	Roots - Psychology Central
		Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley
		American roots music or American folk music, early styles of American music
		Roots revival, the revival of the traditional musical styles of earlier generations
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Roots (167 words)

	Baruch Magazine
		The current national explosion of interest in family history research can be traced back to Alex Haley's 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the phenomenally successful TV miniseries that followed.
		Roots showed that an African American descendant of enslaved ancestors could trace his lineage back to Africa.
		These give us a baseline, a time and place to start our research.
	www.baruch.cuny.edu /magazine/ws04/last.html (733 words)

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		Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley
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	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Roots (105 words)

	Roots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley
		Roots (TV miniseries), a mini-series based on a novel by Alex Haley
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roots (105 words)

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		Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a novel by Alex Haley
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		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.
		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.
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	NOTABLE FAMILY MEMBERS
		The blockbuster television mini series "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," was broadcast on ABC television in 1977, and was watched by an estimated 130 million viewers.
		He is descended from Thomas Sims Graves of Culpeper Co., VA and Fayette Co. and Nelson Co., KY (genealogy 94), and probably before that from Francis Graves of VA, previously believed to be the youngest son of Capt. Thomas Graves of VA (genealogy 169).
		Born on November 3, 1870, John Motley Morehead III was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1891.
	www.gravesfa.org /notable.html (137 words)

	The power of 'Roots': Special celebrates 25th anniversary of landmark miniseries
		The television program was based on "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alex Haley that chronicled seven generations of his family.
		on NBC, the phenomenon that was "Roots" will be remembered with the airing of "Roots -- Celebrating 25 Years: The Saga of an American Classic." This anniversary special, hosted by miniseries star LeVar Burton, takes a look back at the television epic's impact and forward at its legacy.
		At some time during the miniseries' eight nights, 130 million Americans watched "Roots," and the series went on to garner countless awards including nine Emmys and a Peabody.
	www.post-gazette.com /lifestyle/20020115roots0115fnp4.asp (1033 words)

	ALEX HALEY Arts: Literature: Authors: H: Haley, Alex
		Alex Haley Alex Haley, an African American writer, is best known for as the author of the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, from which two television miniseries,...
		HALEY, ALEX U.S. Writer Alex Haley, an African American writer, is best known for as the author of the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, from...
		Information on the U.S. Coast Guard's ship USCGC Alex Haley, renamed after the first Coast Guard journalist and famous author, Alex Haley.
	www.about-fitness.info /Alex_Haley (350 words)

	Haley, Alex
		Alex Haley, an African American writer, is best known for as the author of the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, from which two television miniseries, Roots and Roots II, were adapted.
		The novels, loosely based on Haley's own family, presented an interpretation of the journey of African Americans from their homeland to the United States and their subsequent search for freedom and dignity.
		Fishbein also analyzed an inherent contradiction in Haley's work--it centers on the family as an independent unit that isolates itself from the rest of the community and is thus unable effectively to fight the forces of slavery and racism.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/haleyalex/haleyalex.htm (1077 words)

	Main Page - DragonSearch, the free encyclopedia
		Today, African American literature has become accepted as an integral part of American literature, with books in the genre, such as Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley and The Color Purple by Alice Walker, achieving both best-selling and award-winning status.
		Before the American Civil War, African American literature primarily focused on the issue of slavery, as indicated by the popular subgenre of slave narratives.
		During the American Civil Rights movement, authors like Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about issues of segregation and black nationalism.
	www.dragonsearch.org /article.php?Main_Page (1077 words)

	Jet: Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Mario Van Peebles and Queen Latifah star in TV mini-series 'Mama Flora's Family.' - television special based on Alex Haley novel
		Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Mario Van Peebles and Queen Latifah are among those starring in the upcoming television mini-series Mama Flora's Family, an epic saga by the late lauded Roots author Alex Haley.
		Tyson stars in the title role as Flora Palmer, affectionately known by all as Mama Flora, a family matriarch who guides three generations of her family through the ever-changing American Black experience through the '70s.
		Mama Flora's Family, scheduled to air on CBS Nov. 8 and Nov. 10, was adapted from the newly-released novel by Haley and David Stevens.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m1355/n24_v94/21257377/p1/article.jhtml (1077 words)

	Genealogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Genealogy, an extremely popular hobby, received a big boost in the late 1970s with the premiere of the television adaptation of Alex Haley's fictionalized account of his family line, Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
		Genealogy is sometimes also referred to as family history, although these terms may be used distinctly: the former being the basic study of who is related to whom; the latter involving more "fleshing out" of the life and family histories of the individuals involved.
		In its original form, genealogy was mainly concerned with the ancestry of rulers and nobles, often arguing or demonstrating the legitimacy of claims to wealth and power.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Genealogy (4646 words)

	Green Card Fever movie Review : glamsham.com
		Bharti's dilemma as a woman who has lost sight of her roots is effectively adumbrated in one sequence at her American boyfriend's birthday, where the boy's father humiliates her by likening his son to Mother Teresa who takes pity on the poor Indian girl and brings her home to the American family.
		Though the narrative takes simplistic swipes at the immigrant's plight, "Green Card Fever" has enough glimmers of sunrays falling on its potentially far-reaching canvas to keep us interested in the occasionally-strained, often-ruthless saga of the rootless.
		"Green Card Fever" has plenty of semi-actors on both ends of the racial line trying to look cynical and caustic.
	www.glamsham.com /movies/reviews/gcf.asp?headline=Green~Card~Fever~Movie~Review (481 words)

	Alex Haley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1976 Haley published Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a fictionalized account of his family's history, starting with the story of Kunta Kinte, kidnapped in Gambia in 1767 to be sold as a slave in the United States.
		Haley's fame was marred by plagiarism charges in 1978; after a trial, Haley settled out-of-court for $650,000, having admitted that he copied large passages of Roots from The African by Harold Courlander.
		Haley died in Seattle, Washington of a heart attack before he could complete the story; at his request, it was finished by David Stevens and was published as Alex Haley's Queen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alex_Haley (1162 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Alex Haley
		The vehicle he used was Roots: The Saga of an American Family, his 688-page fictional interpretation of the genealogy of his family beginning with a kidnapped African boy brought to the United States as a slave in the mid-1700s.
		That was not bad for a college dropout who began his career in the Coast Guard as a messboy waiting on white officers.
		In 1976, author Alex Haley did something no black person had been able to do before: he got Americans to view history from a black perspective.
	www.findarticles.com /g1epc/bio/2419200508/p1/article.jhtml (706 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Genealogy
		Genealogy, an extremely popular hobby, received a big boost in the late 1970s with the premiere of the television adaptation of Alex Haley's fictionalized account of his family line, Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
		A picturesque one is the genealogy for Godwulf of Asgard.
		In fiction, it is common to give a character a complicated fictional genealogy to make his or her background more interesting.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Genealogy (4205 words)

	ExpeditionTrips.com: Trip Details Page
		Walk through the villages of Albreda and Juffureh, where African-American author Alex Haley researched his ancestor’s sale into slavery, recounted in his book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
		In this land famed for its birds, Peter Harrison and renowned local ornithologist Clive Barlow, co-author of the acclaimed Field Guide to Birds of The Gambia and Senegal, lead an excursion for birders.
		Watch for the rare grey-headed bristlebill and the African pied hornbill.
	www.expeditiontrips.com /search/trip.asp?tripid=1516 (1051 words)

	THE STANLEY STEAMER: AMERICA'S LEGENDARY STEAM CAR, by Kit Foster
		It takes nineteen chapters, supplemented by nine appendices, to develop the Stanley story, and they have been carefully crafted into an absorbing narrative that traces the family’s roots back to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
		The Stanley Steamer is a project of the Stanley Museum, itself an unusual institution devoted to the perpetuation of all the phases of the Stanley saga that is based in the Stanley hometown of Kingfield, Maine.
		The Stanley Steamer is as ingrained into the American consciousness as the Grand Canyon, the Washington Monument and the New York Yankees are, and this book reaches into every corner of its remarkable story.
	www.autohistory.org /review_13.html (453 words)

	USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cutter was named after author and journalist Alex Haley, the first chief journalist of the Coast Guard, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
		The United States Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley (WMEC-39) is a former U.S. Navy vessel that was recommissioned for Coast Guard duty on July 10, 1999.
		Haley served in the Coast Guard for 20 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USCGC_Alex_Haley_(WMEC-39) (216 words)

	Locals - mmnow.com
		The saga of those Depression and war years in the Delta County native's early life shows he's always been right at home on the water, never far from his roots.
		In June, 1945, thirty-three American servicemen had been trapped aboard the submarine USS Pickerel, grounded on a Pacific reef 320 feet below the surface 200 miles south of Japan, and had been submerged for six days when Navy Chief Warrant Officer Dale Vinette arrived aboard a submarine rescue tug.
		He was born in Nahma where his father had operated a marine dredge for the Bay de Noc Lumber Co.; during World War I, the family moved to Escanaba where Edward Vinette ran a general repair and welding shop to support his wife and five children.
	www.mmnow.com /mm_archive_folder/00/0001/locals.html (216 words)

	American Indians, The Ten Commandments and Barry Fell
		As an adjunct to the Lost Tribes teaching, Barry Fell's books, Saga America, America BC, Bronze Age America are astounding.
		He's dealing mostly with north America and more specifically with the US, but his research has uncovered mountains of evidence regarding the Indians on this continent.
		I too have compiled and researched some years ago my family roots and prepared a similiar report.
	asis.com /~stag/americab.html (216 words)

	Alexander Haley
		Haley went on to a distinguished career as a writer, gaining international fame with his book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, first published in 1976 and later made into a television mini-series.
		Towards the end of the war, Haley was assigned to edit the "Outpost," an official Coast Guard periodical published by the Coast Guard's Personnel Separation Center.
		Haley also listened to the old salts aboard when they would spin their nautical yarns and decided to begin writing in earnest.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/HaleyBio.html (1153 words)

	Essence: Alex Haley's roots revisited.@ HighBeam Research
		That odyssey produced Roots: The Saga of an American Family, an amazing book that garnered Haley a special Pulitzer Prize and caused many African-Americans to swell with pride: Perhaps they, too, were descendants of an African named Kunta Kinte.
		Greater glory came with the Roots TV miniseries, which was reportedly watched by 130 million people and catapulted Alex Haley to international fame.
		At 70, author Alex Haley is an engaging as he was 16 years ago, when he regaled audiences with stories of his 12-year odyssey across three continents.
	highbeam.com /doc/1G1:11812537/Alex+Haleys+roots+revisited~R~.html?... (177 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)
		The ship was named after author and journalist Alex Haley, the first chief journalist of the Coast Guard, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
		It was first commissioned as the USS Edenton (ATS-1), an Edenton-class salvage and rescue ship on January 23, 1971.
		The United States Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley (WMEC-39) is a former U.S. Navy vessel that was recommissioned for Coast Guard duty on July 10, 1999.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/USCGC_Alex_Haley_(WMEC-39) (120 words)

	USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ship was named after author and journalist Alex Haley, the first chief journalist of the Coast Guard, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
		It was first commissioned as the USS Edenton (ATS-1), an Edenton-class salvage and rescue ship on January 23, 1971.
		The United States Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley (WMEC-39) is a former U.S. Navy vessel that was recommissioned for Coast Guard duty on July 10, 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USCGC_Alex_Haley_(WMEC-39) (136 words)

	NOTABLE FAMILY MEMBERS
		The blockbuster television mini series "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," was broadcast on ABC television in 1977, and was watched by an estimated 130 million viewers.
		Morehead then developed an economical process for the manufacture of calcium carbide and laid the groundwork for the development of the Union Carbide Corporation.
		When Gunsmoke was translated from radio to television in 1955, Arness was recommended and selected for the starring role of Matt Dillon by John Wayne.
	www.gravesfa.org /notable.html (136 words)

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