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Still of "Roots" Mini-Series
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Scene from the popular television mini-series "Roots," showing actor LeVar Burton in chains portraying the slave Kunte Kinte, who had recently arrived on a slave ship from Africa, and Lou Gossett as the slave known as Fiddler.
1976
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Alex Haley and Kunte Kinte's Grave
1978
Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television mini-series made from Haley's best selling...
Still from "Roots" Television Mini-Series
1976
Actors Ben Vereen (left), as Chicken George, and Georg Stanford Brown as Tom, in a television still from the popular 1977 television mini-series "Roots". The production was based on the semi-fictio...
Alex Haley
1978
Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Kinte lived and died.
Boston Blackie
1951
Kent Taylor depicted as Boston Blackie from the television series of the same name. This photograph includes a signature.
Daniel Travanti
May 1986
Daniel J. Travanti in the lobby of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Daniel J. Travanti was a lead actor in the television weekly series "Hill Street Blues". He was born in Kenosha and att...
Cast of Ziv Television's series Boston Blackie
1951
Boston Blackie (played by Kent Taylor), Mary Wesley (Lois Collier), and Inspector Faraday (Frank Orth), the cast of the television show Boston Blackie, pose with Whitey the Dog. This photograph inc...
