Tom has taken the lead in hiring Carrie for the local school for the black children.
Warner's younger son, Jim ( Richard Thomas), meets Carrie Barden (Fay Hauser), a young African-American schoolteacher and a graduate of Fisk University, a black school in Nashville (the capital of the state and in Middle Tennessee). Frederick Warner ( Henry Fonda), a former officer in the Confederate Army, race relations are strained, due in part to the new Jim Crow laws and similar influences.Ĭol. Although he has established a working relationship with the town's white leader, Col. Tom, a great-grandson of Kunta Kinte, has become a leader of the black community in Henning.
George, elderly and showing his age, moves in with Tom Harvey ( Georg Stanford Brown), one of his sons, along with Tom’s wife, Irene ( Lynne Moody), and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Cynthia. The story resumes in 1882, 12 years after the arrival of "Chicken George" Moore ( Avon Long) and his family in Henning, in West Tennessee. Plot įor the first part of the story, see Roots Chapter 1 – 1880s The screenplay was written by Ernest Kinoy. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original. First aired on ABC in February 1979, it is a sequel to the 1977 Roots miniseries, tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee from 1882 to 1967. Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries based on the last seven chapters of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. American TV series or program Roots: The Next Generations
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