Alex Haley
1) Roots
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
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English
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"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte."
So begins Roots, one of the most extraordinary and influential books of our time. Through the story of one family—his family—Alex Haley unforgettably brings to life the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him: slaves and freedmen, farmers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
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 colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most...
11) Roots
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2005, p1977
Language
English
Description
Kunte Kinte, an African hunter, is kidnapped from his native Gambia and brought as a slave to colonial America. The story follows him and his descendants through several generations of slavery to the family's post-Civil War independence on their own farm. Adapted from Alex Haley's bestselling book, stars Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, Cecily Tyson, John Amos, Leslie Uggams and Ed Asner.
12) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
13) Malcolm X
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having...
14) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c1977
Language
English
Description
Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
15) Roots
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[p2011]
Language
English
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Roots, adapted from the Alex Haley novel that traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction in Africa to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Roots, the next generations follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s...
18) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Traces an African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.