Roots: The Next Generations
This series continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's geneological search to discover his roots.
- 1979-1979
- 1 season
- ABC
- Documentary, Drama, Action & Adventure
This series continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's geneological search to discover his roots.
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Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1
Part I (1882-1883)
Sun, Feb 18, 1979 99 mins
It's now April 1882, 12 years later. Chicken George returns to live with Tom Harvey and his wife Irene. Tom travels to Memphis to attend a Republican convention but soon learns that his first class ticket for the train has little meaning to the conductor who refuses to let him on and tells him to ride in the baggage car. Colonel Frederick Warner is also traveling to Memphis and intercedes on Tom's behalf. At the home of Beeman Jones, Tom is pressed to support the Democratic party in return for a guarantee to protect civil rights. Carrie Barden is a black teacher who borrows books from the Warner's library and meets the Colonel's son, Jim. Carrie is a college graduate and the two have much in common, including poetry and literature. They are soon spending a good deal of time together and Jim quickly falls in love with her. When he asks her to marry him, she runs away. Col. Warner won't hear of it however and approaches Tom Warner to have her removed from her teaching position. It all becomes moot when Jim and Carrie run off to be married but when the newlyweds return to town, it generates a harsh reaction from the townsfolk and from the Colonel who disowns Jim. Elizabeth Harvey is seeing John Dolan and her mother tells her that if she wants to keep company with a boy, she needs to ask her father's permission. He refuses after meeting the boy and deciding his father was most likely a white man. She decides she wants to become a teacher. One generation comes to an end when Chicken George dies after an accident.
Awards
- 1980 - Golden Globe - Best Television Series - Drama - Nominated
- 1979 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Limited Series - Winner
- 1979 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special - Winner
- 1979 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special - Nominated
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