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Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1970s as it follows Flora, a daughter of poor black Mississippi sharecroppers, and her descendants. Haley died before completing the novel, with Stevens finishing the story line. [citation needed]
- Alex Haley, David Stevens
- 1997
- 1997
- Ithaca ILR Press
Mama Flora's Family: With Cicely Tyson, Erika Alexander, Blair Underwood, Queen Latifah. Mama Flora reflects on her life from the 1910s through to the 1970s while trying to help her granddaughter get her life right and be a better mother for her son, all while bringing the family she has left back together.
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- 1998-11-08
- Drama
- 175
Jan 1, 1998 · Mama Flora's Family was an interesting look into a multigenerational Black family. It explored how the situations for that family evolved as the world evolved and yet, how somethings sadly stayed the same. The author clearly communicates the lives, struggles, and feelings of one Black family in a White America.
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- Paperback
Nov 1, 1999 · Audio, Cassette. $4.77 3 Used from $4.77. She vowed to find a better world for her children. Even if she had to make it herself. A sweeping epic of contemporary history by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley, this magnificent novel weaves an unforgettable story of one family, three generations, and their search for the American dream ...
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- 1997
- Alex Haley, David Stevens
Mama Flora, born to poor sharecroppers in Tennessee, is forced to raise her children alone after the murder of her husband. But it will not be Willie, her son, who fulfills her ambitions, but Ruthana, the niece she raises as her own. Inspired by her love for the radical poet Ben, Ruthana seeks her soul in Africa even as Willie’s son and ...
- Paperback
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Sort. S1 E1 - Part 1. November 8, 1998. 1 h 28 min. 13+. Upon being called upon to help her troubled granddaughter, a Southern black woman in her 70s looks back on a life filled with joy and heartbreak. This video is currently unavailable. S1 E2 - Part 2. November 8, 1998.
Oct 5, 1998 · Mama Flora's Family : A Novel. Hardcover – October 5, 1998. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots penned this sweeping saga, also an upcoming television miniseries, that focuses on the family of matriarch Mama Flora, an African-American woman whose husband dies at the hands of white landowners. 150,000 first printing.
