S1E3
Part 3
Roots: The Next Generations · 1979-02-20 · 60 min
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what happens
The year is 1914 and Will and Cynthia Palmer's daughter Bertha heads off to college, eventually meeting and falling in love with a poor but hard-working fellow student named Simon Haley. Meanwhile Jim and Carrie Warner's son has become a doctor but because he is black, he is prevented from treating his own dying white grandfather, Colonel Warner. Bertha returns home from college for break to find the Ku Klux Klan has come to town and Simon returns to his home in Georgia to learn that his share-cropping family can't afford his tuition anymore and his father is ready to put him back to work in the fields. Simon manages to find work as a Pullman porter on the railroads to earn money during the summer, but also attracts a benefactor - a kind journalist who he served on a train route. In 1918, rather than attend graduation, Simon enlists in the army and heads off for war, heeding the words of Dr. W.E.B. Dubois, but leaving behind a stunned and grief-stricken Bertha.
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 S1E3 →who made it
- directed
- John Erman
- written
- Ernest Kinoy
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Paul Koslo as Earl Crowther
Marc Singer as Andy Warner
Debbi Morgan as Elizabeth Harvey
Stan Shaw as Will Palmer
Irene Cara as Bertha Palmer Haley
Dorian Harewood as Simon Haley
Henry Fonda as Colonel Frederick Warner
Richard Thomas as Jim Warner