Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: A road trip though the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coal mines, and mountains, with alternative country musician and songwriter Jim White acting as tour guide. Presents a collage of stories and testimonies while a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SEAContents: You must have that true religion / Mavis Staples -- Both ways / Billy Preston -- Tonight I'll be staying here with you / Ann Peebles -- Same love that made me laugh / Irma Thomas -- Mi amour / Allen Tousaint -- Keep on pushing / Mavis Staples -- As one / Billy Preston -- Loving arms / Irma Thomas -- River boat / Allen Toussaint -- That's enough / Mavis Staples & Billy Preston -- Turvalon /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Work Song/Rhino 2005