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Poster Roots: The Next Generations

Roots: The Next Generations Season 1 Episode 1: Part 1 1979

Watch Tv Show Series Roots: The Next Generations : It has now been 12 years since Chicken George and his family left their plantation in Virginia and arrived in Henning, Tennessee. The year is 1882 and the era of Reconstruction of the south and substantial progress for the newly-freed slaves, is coming to an end with the implementation of Jim Crow laws throughout the state. George's son Tom Harvey has been asked to travel to Memphis to meet with members of the Colored Republican Party Club, a group of local black politicians who are trying to come up with a new election strategy in light of the changing times. Meanwhile Tom's oldest daughter takes a liking for and wants to marry a young mulatto man, much to Tom's disapproval. The white son of a local attorney and adviser to the railroad eschews his father's profession in favor of poetry and falls in love with a local college-educated black school teacher brought to the town by Tom to open a colored school. However when they marry, he is expelled from his family and their presence in town raises the ire of the townspeople..

Genre: Drama
Air Date: 1979-02-18
Season Number: 1
Episodes Number: 1
Stars: Georg Stanford Brown (Tom Harvey) , Olivia de Havilland (Mrs. Warner) , Henry Fonda (Col. Frederick Warner) , Paul Koslo (Earl Crowther) , Avon Long (Chicken George Moore) , Lynne Moody (Irene Harvey) , Greg Morris (Beeman Jones) , Marc Singer (Andy Warner) , Richard Thomas (Jim Warner) , Fay Hauser (Carrie Barden) , Brian Stokes Mitchell (John Dolan) , Debbi Morgan (Elizabeth Harvey) , Kathleen Doyle (Lucy Damson) , Ja'net DuBois (Sally Harvey) , Slim Gaillard (Sam Wesley) , Harry Morgan (Bob Campbell) , Roger E. Mosley (Lee Garnet) , Stan Shaw (Will Palmer) , Irene Cara (Bertha Palmer Haley) , James Daly (R.S.M. Boyce) , Ossie Davis (Dad Jones) , Ruby Dee (Queen Victoria Haley) , Dorian Harewood (Simon Haley) , Kene Holliday (Detroit) , George Voskovec (Mr. Goldstein) , Hal Williams (Aleck Haley) , Bever-Leigh Banfield (Cynthia Palmer) , E. Lamont Johnson (Frank Warner, age 20) , Bernie Casey (Bubba Haywood) , Pam Grier (Francey) , Rosey Grier (Big Slew Johnson) , Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Capt. Bowker) , Percy Rodriguez (Boyd Moffatt) , John Rubinstein (Lt. Hamilton Ten Eyck) , Diana Douglas (Mrs. Andy Warner) , Jason Wingreen (Judge Quartermain) , Maidie Norman (Sister Scrap Scott) , Bruce French (Calloway) , Robert Culp (Lyle Pettijohn) , Dina Merrill (Mrs. Hickinger) , Brock Peters (Ab Decker) , Beah Richards (Cynthia Palmer) , Paul Winfield (Dr. Horace Huguley) , Lynn Hamilton (Cousin Georgia Anderson) , Kristoff St. John (Alex Haley, age 12) , Logan Ramsey (D.L. Lewis) , Dennis Fimple (Sheriff Duffy) , Debbie Allen (Nan Branch Haley) , Damon Evans (Alex Haley, ages 17-25) , Andy Griffith (Cmdr. Robert Munroe) , Diahann Carroll (Zeona Haley) , Rafer Johnson (Nelson) , Carmen McRae (Lila) , John Hancock (Scotty) , Della Reese (Mrs. Lydia Branch) , Telma Hopkins (Daisy) , Milt Kogan (Mel Klein) , Barbara Barrie (Dodie Brattle) , Marlon Brando (George Lincoln Rockwell) , James Broderick (Dr. Lewis) , Lee Chamberlin (Odile Richards) , Michael Constantine (Dr. Vansina) , Norman Fell (Bernie Raymond) , Al Freeman Jr. (Malcolm X) , James Earl Jones (Alex Haley) , Claudia McNeil (Sister Will Ada) , Linda Hopkins (Singer) , Bobby Short (Pianist) , Jane Rose (Mrs. Bullfinch) , Howard Rollins (George Haley) , Johnny Sekka (Ebou Manga) , Kim Fields (Lydia Haley)

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