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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOHaley, Alex.
Summary: Alex Haley traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. He follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America/Sound library 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 929.2 HALDavis, Walter Goodwin
Contents: v. 1. Allanson-French -- v. 2. Gardner-Moses -- v. 3. Neal-Wright.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1996
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 DAVDavis, Walter Goodwin
Contents: v. 1. Allanson-French -- v. 2. Gardner-Moses -- v. 3. Neal-Wright.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1996
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 DAVHaley, Alex.
Summary: This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1976
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 HALHaley, Alex.
Summary: The fictionalized saga of Haley's father's family, sequel to Roots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALDavis, Walter Goodwin
Contents: v. 1. Allanson-French -- v. 2. Gardner-Moses -- v. 3. Neal-Wright.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1996
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 DAVRay, Janisse
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.8784 RAYSummary: "Red Without Blue is the groundbreaking documentary about the indestructible ties of family. This visually arresting film chronicles the close, yet sometimes strained relationship between identical twins Mark and Alex as Alex undergoes a transformation into a woman named Clair. Captured over a period of three years, RWB documents the twins and their parents, examining the Farleys' struggle to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Indiepix 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REDKempton, Elsie Eggleston.
Summary: Begins with Oscar P. Eggleston (1861-1939) of Litchfield, Michigan. Continues with allied family information traced back to the 1400s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kempton 1979