Students also learn about the city life of the enslaved, the remarkable contributions of free blacks as they actively participated in the business and social events of the town, and how the town forever changed as a result of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras.Īs the excursion continues into the world of today, students can see African-American leaders who walk the streets of Annapolis as they participate in the process of making Maryland laws.įinally, the tour ends in front of Maryland’s official museum of African American History and Culture, the Banneker Douglass Museum. He sends his daughter Bertha to Lane College, where she meets her future husband, poor sharecropper’s son Simon Haley. As Henning grows, so does the lumber company run by Will Palmer. Roots: The Next Generations Episode 3 1914. Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American Family Kindle Edition by Alex Haley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 3,079 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. The students follow the chronology of African-American history in Maryland as they move through time from the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial, at the location where Kunta Kinte arrived in 1767, to the highest point in Maryland’s capital, the State House, which recognizes Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, sworn into office in 1967. Their first child Bertha George will become the mother of Alex Haley.
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