Roots: The Next Generations is a 1979 television miniseries that continues the fictional story of the family of Alex Haley from the 1880s, and their life in Henning, Tennessee, to the 1960s. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's fictional novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family and additional material by him. Roots: The Next Generations was shot with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times that of the original. The story resumes in 1882 where Tom Harvey , the great-grandson of Kunta Kinte, has become a prominent leader of the black... community in Henning, Tennessee. Although he has established a working relationship with the town's white leader, Colonel Warner , race relations in the community are still strained. Jim Crow laws, literacy tests, and later the Ku Klux Klan increase the tensions. A sub plot involves Colonel Warner's youngest son, Jim falling in love with African American school teacher, Carrie Barden . Colonel Warner disapproves of this and gets Tom to let her go or close down the school.
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