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 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 HALSummary: 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: 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 HALHaley, 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 HALSummary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AILZlozower, Neil.
Summary: Candid, live, and backstage photographs of the band "Van Halen" tracing the group's rise to fame from 1978 through 1984 are paired with quotations from other rock stars commenting on the band's influence and talent.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 VAN HALEN ZLODean, Andrea Oppenheimer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.71 DEAX, Malcolm
Summary: Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells his life story to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999