ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Alex Haley with children in the Gambia, 1967

2. Alex Haley takes notes on boat en route to Fort James in the Gambia, 1967

3. Alex Haley listens to Kebba Fofana Kinte tell the story of the Kinte family

4. Kebba Fofana Kinte, the Gambian elder who told Haley the story of Kunta Kinte

5. Alex Haley gave hundreds of lectures across the country as a client of the W. Colston Leigh speakers’ bureau

6. Alex Haley seated with members of the Kinte clan in the Gambia, 1967

7. Stan Margulies and David Wolper celebrate their Emmy win for Roots, 1977

8. LeVar Burton with David Greene on the set of Roots

9. Louis Gosset Jr. and LeVar Burton filming a scene from Roots in Savannah, Georgia

10. Alex Haley holds a galleys copy of Roots on the set in Savannah, Georgia

11. LeVar Burton and Alex Haley

12. Director Gilbert Moses watches over filming, with director of photography Joe Wilcots behind the camera

13. Haley signing copies of Roots at mall in Los Angeles, 1977

14. Binta Kinte (Cicely Tyson) and midwife Nyo Boto (Maya Angelou) show baby Kunta to Omoro and viewers

15. Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala) holds baby Kunta skyward

16. Ed Asner as the slave ship captain Thomas Davies, a much larger role in the television version of Roots than in Alex Haley’s book>

17. Middle Passage scene in Roots

18. Two students from Savannah State University who served as extras in the Middle Passage scene

19. Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) whipping scene

20. Kizzy Kinte (Leslie Uggams) talks with Missy Anne Reynolds (Sandy Duncan)

21. Patrons watching Roots at a bar in Harlem

22. Alex Haley signing a copy of Roots for Dr. Robert McCabe while George Sims looks on, 1976