Roots: The Gift (1988) (television), 196, 207
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (television), 193, 196, 207
Roots Week, 128
Rose, Willie Lee, 132, 141–42
Ross, Diana, 110
Rottenberg, Dan, 135–36
Roundtree, Richard, 109, 111, 118–19
Rubin, Louis, 136
Rudolph, Lou, 103
San Francisco Chronicle, 38
Sanyang, B. L. K., 187
Saroyan, William, 15–16
Savannah (Georgia), 112, 114, 159, 160, 174
Savannah State University, 160, 162fig.
Schickel, Richard, 156
Schlitz beer calendar deal, 183
scholarship, 2, 6, 8–9, 10, 141–45, 184, 208. See also black scholars
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 9, 71–72, 197
Schulberg, Budd, 15–16
Schultz, Michael, 122
Scott, Jan, 159–160
scripts, 95–96, 103–5, 158–59, 197, 226n9
Searching for Your Ancestors (Doane, 1973), 135–36
Senegal, 37, 43
sexuality, 31, 116, 156, 163, 202–3. See also breast nudity depiction
Shabazz, Betty, 28–29, 195
Shaft (films and television), 111, 118–19
Shaw, Irwin, 125
Shirer, William, 19
Sidibe, Bakari, 51–52, 142–43
Silverman, Fred, 129–130
Simon and Schuster, 71
Simpson, Phyllis Lu, 207
Sims, George: the Gambia and, 30, 48, 50fig.; Haley, Alex and, 16, 196; Miami-Dade Community College and, 185fig.; research and, 12, 30, 40, 50fig., 71, 146, 194
Sinclair, Madge, 110–11, 171
Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, The (Blassingame, 1972), 6
slavery history: ABC (American Broadcasting Company) and, 2, 156, 200; audiences and, 175–180; black actors and, 111–12, 118–120, 163–68, 169, 172; Black Family: A Case for National Action, The (Moynihan, 1965) (report) and, 137–38; dark stories and, 150–51; European powers and, 37; the Gambia and, 38, 41–42, 48; historical accuracy and, 27, 61–63, 177–78; Kinte, Kunta (fourth great-grandfather) and, 26, 59–60, 61–62, 134–35, 159; legacies and, 207–8; Lord Ligonier (ship), 2, 60–62, 151, 157, 158; memorializing, 199–208; the Middle Passage, 4, 113, 151, 159–160, 161–66, 171, 193, 201–2, 205; Nigeria and, 179; Old Sister Dinti and, 148–49; popular culture and, 64, 140–41, 156, 200, 208; profiting from, 2, 181–82, 205; Roots (Haley) and, 2, 6–7, 52, 60, 132–141, 143–44, 145, 149–151, 200–208; Roots (television) and, 2, 162–64, 200–208; scholarship and, 2, 6, 8–9, 143–45, 208; systems and, 179; Walker, Kara and, 8, 203–5; white guilt and, 108, 140–41, 177, 180; white sired children and, 41. See also individual works
Slavery in New York (2005) (exhibit), 208
Slavery! Slavery! (Walker, 1997) (murals), 203–4
Slave Ship (play), 121
Smith, Eddie, 164
Smithsonian Institution, 12
South Africa, 179
South Carolina, 38, 44
speaking circuit. See lectures
Stalmaster, Lynn, 105, 107–8, 110
Stampp, Kenneth, 181
Standards and Practices office (ABC), 115–17, 165
Steinbeck, John, 15–16
Stevens, Carole, 125–26
Stoddard, Brandon, 5, 107, 117, 128, 129, 130
Stone, Chuck, 137, 180
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 63–65
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 121
Study of History, A (1934–61) (Toynbee), 144
Suso, Jali Nyama, 48fig.
Talese, Gay, 58
Tarzan (film), 113, 133
television: appearances on, 1–2, 69–70, 77–78, 89, 168; Archive of American Television, 9; BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 156; BET (Black Entertainment Television), 208; black programs and, 206–7; CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), 207; genealogy and, 205–6; Haley, Alex and, 1–2, 69–70, 77–78, 89, 138–39, 196; NBC (National Broadcasting Company), 8, 83, 207; PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), 156, 181, 205; racism and, 17, 109–10, 180. See also ABC (American Broadcasting Company); Margulies, Stan; Roots (television); Wolper, David; individual shows
television rights, 75, 92–102
This Week, 14
Thomas, Ernest, 106
Thompson, Era Bell, 74
Thompson, Hunter S., 58
Time, 67–68, 156, 179–180
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (Fogel and Engerman, 1974), 6, 143–44
title change, 67, 125
Todd, Charles, 40
Tonight Show, 1–2, 6, 69
Townsend, Robert, 206
Toynbee, Arnold, 144
Travels in the Interior of Africa (Park, 1799), 38
Tribe Called Quest, A (hip-hop artist), 206
True Confessions, 13–14
Truth, Sojourner, 7
Turner, Nat, 181
Turpin, Waters, 73
TV Guide, 125
12 Years a Slave (1853; 2013) (Northup), 208
Tyson, Cicely, 153–54, 155fig., 171
Uggams, Leslie, 9, 109, 111–12, 171–74
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 63–65, 204
University of Southern California, 9, 70, 91, 99, 105, 106, 166
University of Tennessee, 9, 196–97
US Coast Guard, 13–14, 15, 16
Vanocur, Sander, 162–63
Van Peebles, Melvin, 121
Vansina, Jan, 26–27, 39, 73
Variety, 120
VCRs (videocassette recorders), 184–85
Vereen, Ben, 109, 111, 112
Waite, Ralph, 157, 165
Walker, Hamza, 204
Walker, Kara, 8, 203–5
Walker, Margaret, 74, 190
Wallace, Irving, 19, 85
Waller, John, 61, 62, 166
Waller, William, 61
Wall Street Journal, 67, 68, 89
Ward, Robert, 193
Warner Brothers studio, 93, 179
Washington Post, 128–29, 145, 162
Waters, Harry, 163
Wattstax (1973) (documentary), 123
W. Colston Leigh speakers’ bureau, 3, 53–54, 55fig., 195. See also lectures
West Germany, 179
Westheimer, Joe, 123
“What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (Douglass), 170
whipping scene, 156, 166–68, 169
white actors, 107–9, 130, 168. See also individual actors
white audiences, 3, 70, 72–73, 90–91, 106–10, 130, 139–141, 180
white characters, 109, 157, 158
white guilt, 108, 140–41, 177, 180
white readers, 90–91, 139–141
Who Do You Think You Are? Digging for Your Family Roots (Hilton, 1976), 135–36
“Why ‘Roots’ Hit Home” (Time), 179–180
Wilcots, Joseph, 121, 122fig., 123–24
Wilkins, Roger, 133, 178
Williams, Billy Dee, 110
Williams, Eric, 184
Williams, Ethel, 135–36
Wilson, Flip, 110
Wilson, Woodrow, 8
Wolfe, Tom, 58
Wolper, David: ABC (American Broadcasting Company) and, 91, 95–96, 127–28; advance marketing and, 125–26, 130; Bess, Rebecca and, 165; birth depiction and, 154; black film professionals and, 120, 124; black television programs and, 207; breast nudity depiction and, 116–17; copyright and, 194; crediting, 127–28, 185; Emmy award and, 92fig.; finishing Roots (Haley) and, 3, 82, 95, 101–2; Kinte, Kunta (fourth great-grandfather) casting and, 105, 106–7; licensing deals and, 183–84, 185; manuscript collection auction and, 197; mass culture and, 156; novel v nonfiction and, 127; Reader’s Digest and, 91; Roots (Haley) and, 3, 5, 65, 82, 91–96; television rights and, 75, 92–94; white audiences and, 109–10, 180
Wolper Productions, 91, 102, 127, 185
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Woodson, Carter G., 73, 74
Woodward, C. Vann, 144
Works Progress Administration, 169
World Press Institute, 89, 104
Wright, Richard, 19, 73
Writer and His Markets, The (Reynolds), 18
Writing Selling Fiction (Reynolds), 18
Writing Selling Nonfiction (Reynolds), 18
X, Malcolm, 18–19, 22–24, 28–29, 31, 80, 104, 121, 158, 195, 219n31. See also Autobiography of Malcolm X, The (Haley)
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