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...message struck a special chord in me," said Los Angeles Correspondent William Marmon, whose long interview with Alex Haley, the author of Roots, accompanies our cover story. Marmon, whose own roots were in the South, finds that he too has "rattling around in my head some near-biblical family stories told and retold by my grandmother." Like many white Southerners, Marmon chafed against the "distorting experience" of segregation and, to help counteract it, wrote his senior thesis at Princeton on the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s. Correspondent Edward Boyer, who sat in on the interview with Haley, felt a shock...
...elementary school, our class was given an assignment to trace our ancestors to their country of origin. I could not do it. At that time it was hard for me to understand why I was the only student not able to complete the assignment. I commend Alex Haley for his accomplishment and only wish that I could have beaten...
...Harlem tavern in New York City, patrons insisted that the jukebox be turned off while they discussed the TV program they had just watched; in Los Angeles, the owner of one discotheque closed down operations altogether. The reason: last week's twelve-hour dramatization of Alex Haley's book Roots...
Aired over eight consecutive nights, Roots came up roses for ABC. Haley's story, recounting his ancestors' brutal passage from life in Africa through slavery in America, attracted nearly 80 million viewers on its third night, making that episode the third most popular TV presentation in history. With almost seven out of every ten sets in use tuned to the drama, the only shows that have had a bigger audience were NBC's screenings of Gone With the Wind...
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