Alex Haley

After eleven years of research to uncover the facts of his heritage, Haley shares the saga of an American black family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself

Describes Coronado's search for gold in the American Southwest and his interaction with the Native Americans there.

Describes the work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton for the women's suffrage movement.

Describes the life of the Spanish priest who established missions in California in the late eighteenth century and discusses the lack of understanding between him and the Indians he came to convert.

This fictionalized account of Haley's family follows the life of the daughter of a black slave and a white plantation owner in the late nineteenth century South.