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Roots: The Next Generations: Season 1: Episode 3

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ABC | Air Date: February 20, 1979
Starring: John Rubinstein, Lee Chamberlin, Georg Stanford Brown, Brock Peters, Beah Richards, Harry Morgan, Diahann Carroll, Debbie Allen, Kene Holliday, Andy Griffith, Roosevelt Grier, Robert Culp, Paul Winfield, Dorian Harewood, Roger E. Mosley, Lynne Moody, Al Freeman Jr., Barbara Barrie, Marc Singer, Greg Morris, Norman Fell, Damon Evans, Hal Williams, Richard Thomas, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Ossie Davis, Irene Cara, Ruby Dee, Bernie Casey, Pam Grier, Stan Shaw, Percy Rodríguez, Dina Merrill, Claudia McNeil, Avon Long, Paul Koslo, James Earl Jones, Rafer Johnson, Slim Gaillard, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, James Daly, Michael Constantine, James Broderick, Marlon Brando, Carmen McRae, George Voskovec
Summary: 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, ColonelThe 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.… Expand
Genre(s): Drama
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