Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film, it is the third installment of the "Roots" series, which traces the maternal family history of an African American author, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte, a character in the novel Roots by which African American author?
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Roots: The Gift Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film. It is the third installment of the "Roots" series, which traces the maternal family history of African American author Alex Haley, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte. The film premiered on ABC on 11 December 1988, with AT&T as the sole national sponsor for the broadcast. LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. reprise their respective roles of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler. The film takes place between the second and third episodes of the original "Roots" miniseries.
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Kunta Kinte Kunta Kinte ( 1750 – 1822; ) is a character in the novel "" by American author Alex Haley. Haley claimed that Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America and who died in 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in "Roots" was a mixture of fact and fiction. The extent to which Kunta Kinte is based on fact is disputed.
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The Kent Family Chronicles The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The American Bicentennial Series) is a series of eight novels by John Jakes written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. The books became best sellers, with no novel in the series selling fewer than 3.5 million copies. With "The Rebels," "The Seekers," and "The Furies," Jakes became the first author to have three books on the "New York Times" bestseller list in a single year (1975).
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Anna de Brémont Anna, Countess de Brémont (née Dunphy; c. 1856 – 1922) was an American journalist, novelist, poet and singer. She spent much of her life in England. A period in South Africa provided the material for some of her books.
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Dark Roots Dark Roots is a collection of short fiction by Cate Kennedy. It was first published in Australia by Scribe in 2006. "Cold Snap" appeared in The New Yorker under the title "Black Ice". "What Thou and I Did, till We Loved" won The Age Short Story Award in 2001.
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Claude Brown Claude Brown (February 23, 1937 - February 2, 2002) is the author of "Manchild in the Promised Land", published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. He also published "Children of Ham" (1976).
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Buchi Emecheta Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian-born British novelist, based in the UK from 1962, who also wrote plays and autobiography, as well as work for children. She was the author of more than 20 books, including "Second-Class Citizen" (1974), "The Bride Price" (1976), "The Slave Girl" (1977) and "The Joys of Motherhood" (1979).
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Lawrence Mott Jordan Lawrence Mott IV (1881–1931), often referred to as Jordan Lawrence Mott III and better known as Lawrence Mott, was an American novelist and writer on the outdoor life. He was the great-grandson of Jordan L. Mott (born 1799), who founded the J. L. Mott Iron Works in New York City. His grandfather was Jordan Lawrence Mott II (10 November 1829 – 26 July 1915), and his father was Jordan Lawrence Mott III (born 13 May 1857).
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Sam Greenlee Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American writer, best known for his controversial novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers), and went on to be chosen as "The Sunday Times" Book of the Year. The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co-produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a "cult classic".
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Shirley Graham Du Bois Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American award-winning author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes. In later life she married the noted thinker, writer, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. The couple became citizens of Ghana in 1961 after they emigrated to that country. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works.
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John Langston Gwaltney John Langston Gwaltney (September 25, 1928 – August 29, 1998) was an African-American writer and anthropologist focused on African-American culture, best known for his book "Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America".
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Kristin Hunter Kristin Elaine Hunter (September 12, 1931 – November 14, 2008) was an African-American writer from Pennsylvania. She sometimes wrote under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany. She is best known for her first novel, "God Bless the Child", published in 1964.
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Ika Hügel-Marshall Erika "Ika" Hügel-Marshall (born 13 March 1947) is an Afro-German author and activist. She was active in the organization ADEFRA Afro-Deutsche Frauen, the Black German women's movement. Her autobiography, "Daheim unterwegs. Ein deutsches Leben" (published in English as "Invisible Woman. Growing up Black in Germany"), discusses racism in Germany and her search for a family identity. She has been influenced by and has praised the work of her friend, American activist Audre Lorde.
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Thomas Sutpen Thomas Sutpen is the focal character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel "Absalom, Absalom!" Sutpen arrives in Faulkner's imaginary Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi in the 1830s and establishes a 64,000 acre (100 square mile) plantation, Sutpen's Hundred, in an attempt to create his own personal dynasty. It is eventually revealed that Sutpen was born to a poor white family in what became West Virginia before moving to the Tidewater region of Virginia, where he was first privy to the aristocratic plantation culture of the Antebellum South.
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Erskine Caldwell Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States in novels such as "Tobacco Road" (1932) and "God's Little Acre" (1933) won him critical acclaim, but also made him controversial among Southerners of the time who felt he was deprecating the people of the region.
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Joseph Mitchell (Mitchell Estate director) Joseph Mitchell (born February 27, 1935) is known for being one of the two nephews of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone with the Wind", and the last family member to control the Mitchell Estate.
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One Man, One Matchet One Man, One Matchet is Nigeriann author T. M. Aluko, published in 1964 as the 11th book in the Heinemann African Writers Series. The novel tells the story of a community in Western Nigeria during the end of the colonial period and beginning of independence. Set in a small community where the majority of the inhabitants are dependent on the revenue from their cocoa crops, the story looks at the role of the semi-literate Benjamin Benjamin in the small community.
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Barnabas Root Barnabas Root, born Fahma Yahny, (Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone, West Africa) was the grandson of an American-born slave who had moved to Africa through the efforts of the American Colonization Society. Yahny attended the original Mendi Mission school in Mendiland, Sierra Leone, where he was educated by Mary McIntosh, an alumna of Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, which was founded in the Calvinist tradition. The College and many of the Congregational churches of the city were active with the American Missionary Association.
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Messenger (novel) Messenger is a 2004 young adult fiction by author Lois Lowry. It forms the third installment of "The Giver Quartet" begun by her 1993 Newbery Medal-winning novel "The Giver". This novel takes place about eight years after the events of "The Giver", and about six years after the events of "Gathering Blue". Characters from the two earlier books reappear in "Messenger," connecting the novels more strongly. Set in an isolated community known simply as Village, this novel focuses upon a boy named Matty, who serves as message-bearer through the ominous Forest that surrounds the community.
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Tree of Freedom Tree of Freedom is a children's historical novel by Rebecca Caudill. It is a pioneer story set in Kentucky at the time of the American Revolutionary War. The novel, illustrated by Dorothy Morse, was first published in 1949 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1950.
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Who Will Remember the People... Who Will Remember the People... (French: Qui se souvient des hommes... ) is a 1986 novel by the French writer Jean Raspail. It tells the history of the Alacalufe people, a largely extinct South American tribe, throughout the centuries. The two main characters reappear in each generation. The native name of the Alacufs is "Kaweskar", which means "the people". Raspail had met members of the tribe in the early 1950s which had made an impression that stayed with him.
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Grace Duffie Boylan Grace Duffie Boylan (February 9, 1861 - March 24, 1935) was an American writer. She wrote many children’s books, often dealing with diverse races and cultures, like "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (not to be confounded with the same title by Harriet Beecher Stowe). Other titles include: "Young Folks", "Our Little Eskimo Kiddies: Kids of Many Colors", "Yama Yama Land", and "Our Little Cuban Kiddies".