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He wrote the famous epic book called Roots, about African slaves in early America, which was made later into a successful TV miniseries, which not only illuminated the state of African Americans to a largely ignorant public but also employed scores of black actors, something that was rarely done at that time. A very powerful book that needed to be written in light of the civil rights movements and racial tensions in the 70's. He reaearched for a decade and so historically it is quite accurate. Go on Netflix to get the series and any library will have a copy of Roots.

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He wrote a book about his family called"Root''

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