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...Conyers and other blacks, however, the chief contribution of Roots?one that also provides its great potential for lasting effects???was crystallized in the sixth episode, when Kizzy explained to her son Chicken George why she could not marry her lover, Sam. "Sam wasn't like us," she says. "Nobody ever told him where he come from. So he didn't have a dream of where he ought to be goin'." Because of Alex Haley's search, countless American blacks now know, or are trying to find out. Michigan Congressman Charles Diggs told Conyers that "now he understands...
...Significance, the grand thing, is to have made Walt known as a natural force is known, by its unhurried yet manifest effects???by putting the reader into the boots of people who knew and felt Walt, bringing his big frame and nature so close that psychological terms are irrelevant and it is unnecessary even to quote the poems to show why they were written, what they mean. If there is a mite of unction spread through Author Rogers' pages, it is not obtrusive nor out of place in a book that is bound to be laid warmly and strongly...
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