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Roots: The Gift. Alex Haley's Queen (also known as Queen) is a 1993 American television miniseries that aired in three installments on February 14, 16, and 18 on CBS. [1] [2] The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Queen: The Story of an American Family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The novel is based on the life of Queen Jackson ...
E185.97.H24 A33. Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America; it follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley.
- Alex Haley
- 704 pp (First edition, hardback)
- 1976
- August 17, 1976
Alex Haley's Queen is a 1993 drama film directed by John Erman and starring Halle Berry, Danny Glover, and Diahann Carroll. The film is based on the novel "Queen: The Story of an American Family" by Alex Haley and follows the story of Queen (Berry), a young woman who is born into a family of slaves and struggles to find her place in the world ...
- John Erman
Jun 25, 1993 · An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age Inspired by the True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country Shana Abe 4.4 out of 5 stars 8,822
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- William Morrow & Company
- $34.95
- Alex Haley, David Stevens
Queen: The Story of an American Family. It brought back to the consciousness of many white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation: the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of their fathers. A miniseries adaptation called Alex Haley's Queen and starring Halle Berry in the title ...
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Feb 14, 1993 · The late Alex Haley, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” revisits this era in “Queen,” a three-part CBS mini-series based on his 16-hour oral ...
Alex Haley's Queen is a 1993 American television miniseries that aired in three installments on February 14, 16, and 18 on CBS. The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Queen: The Story of an American Family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The novel is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, Haley's paternal grandmother.
