Roots: The Next Generations - Season 1 Episode 6 Part 6
Seven years have passed since Alex's mother's death and the Haley family has moved to Elizabeth City, North Carolina where Simon is teaching agriculture at the local state teacher's college after remarrying. Alex has decided to drop out of college and return home, immediately finding a job with the WPA for $1 a day. Simon, realizing that Alex was apparently too young when he was sent off to college, recommends that Alex enlist in the military. Alex decides to join the Coast Guard in Norfolk, Virginia, but sadly discovers that his only opportunity there is working in the ship's galley. Alex eventually meets a young lady at a weekly church social and after war is declared, marries her before he is sent off to the south pacific. While at sea, he learns that he is the father of a baby girl and otherwise finds popularity and solace when writing. When the war is over, he returns home and re-enlists despite his father's disapproval, taking an assignment at a Coast Guard station in New York City. However he finds that racism is alive and well in his day to day life and his struggle to become a professional writer eventually alienates his wife.
Year: 1979
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Studio: ABC
Director: Alex Haley
Cast: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo, Avon Long, Lynne Moody
Crew: Alex Haley (Writer), Gerald Fried (Music), Joseph M. Wilcots (Director of Photography), Robert MacKichan (Art Direction), Tom Dawson (Costume Design), Stan Margulies (Producer)
First Air Date: Feb 18, 1979
Last Air date: Feb 25, 1979
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 7 Episode
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDb: 7.30/10 by 29.00 users
Popularity: 21.31
Language: English, French
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