Roots: The Next Generation is the 1979 mini-series that serves as a sequel to the ground breaking Roots mini-series. Tom Harvey (Georg Stanford Brown) is the great grandson of Kunta Kinte and a black leader in Tennessee. Tom Harvey has a working relationship with Col. Warner (Henry Fonda), a leader in the white community in the same town. Col. Warner's son Jim (Richard Thomas) is romantically involved with an African American school teacher named Carrie Barden (Fay Hauser). Despite his father's protests, Jim and Carrie get married in Memphis and Jim is cut off from his father's will. Meanwhile, Tom Harvey's daughter Cynthia (Bever-leigh Banfield) marries Will Palmer (Stan Shaw) as he takes over a local lumber business. Their daughter goes on to study at AT&T College due to their financial success. The story rolls on through generations. From the 1880s through World War I and World War II and into the 1960s civil rights movement.MORE
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