S1E2
Part 2
Roots: The Next Generations Β· 1979-02-19 Β· 60 min
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what happens
Thirteen years have passed in the town of Henning, Tennessee and now in 1896, the town has taken advantage of a burgeoning new industrial age thanks to the expansion of the railroad. Returning home from Kansas City after a decade away teaching, Elizabeth Harvey reunites with her younger sister Cynthia, now grown up, and reconciles with her father. Cynthia has taken an interest in a local railroad gang worker named Will Palmer who returns her affections. But in order to court her properly and gain the approval of her father Tom, Will leaves the railroad and finds a better job at a lumber mill, eventually taking Cynthia to be his wife. His hard work, dedication, loyalty, and financial acumen leads to his surprise promotion to owner and operator of the mill, although it is now saddled with debt. Despite this, he and Cynthia give Tom and Irene their first grandchild. Meanwhile Colonel Warner's son Andy decides to get involved in politics by running against his father to institute a new Democratic Party that plans to disenfranchise blacks of the vote and ensure victory against the Republicans. And now thanks to new restrictive voting laws in the state of Tennessee, Tom is denied the opportunity to vote for the first time since the end of the Civil War.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S1E2 βwho made it
- directed
- Charles S. Dubin
- written
- Ernest Kinoy
guest cast
Billed for this episode only β the turn people remember an episode for.
Georg Stanford Brown as Tom Harvey
Olivia de Havilland as Mrs. Warner
Paul Koslo as Earl Crowther
Lynne Moody as Irene Harvey
Marc Singer as Andy Warner
Debbi Morgan as Elizabeth Harvey
Harry Morgan as Bob Campbell
Roger E. Mosley as Lee Garnet