Warner disapproves of the relationship between Jim and Carrie, so he seeks to persuade Tom to fire Carrie or to close the school.Īfter an argument between Tom and his older daughter, Elizabeth ( Debbi Morgan), about his refusal to accept her suitor, John Dolan ( Brian Stokes Mitchell), because he is half white, (although Irene reminds Tom that his father Chicken George is also half-white, and Tom himself is a quarter white) Tom decides to allow Carrie to continue teaching. 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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