false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172256741m/154713.jpg 154713 3 In <I>The Autobiography of Malcolm X</I> and <I>Roots</I>, Alex Haley showed a masterful talent for dramatizing the triumphs and tragedies of African Americans and their families. This book--the basis for a 1998 CBS miniseries--was "cowritten" by David Stevens after Haley's death in 1992, telling the story of Flora, a black girl born to a sharecropping family in Mississippi who later moves to Memphis, Tennessee, where her husband, Booker, is killed by white landowners. Her son, Willie, moves to Chicago, fights in World War II, and marries, while Flora adopts her niece, Ruthauna, who later goes to college.<p> Those events in Mama Flora's life span the gap between 1912 and the modern era, and along the way, Haley depicts the Civil Rights-Black Power paradigm that caused disagreements in many black families. But, ultimately what Haley shows through Flora is the undying Afro-American belief in moral justice, and an ancestral drive for freedom that, in the case of Mama Flora's family, is strong enough even to withstand the ravages of drug abuse plaguing contemporary American families. <I>--Eugene Holley Jr.</I> 268742 1998 Mama Flora's Family total:36|5:10|4:17|3:7|2:2|1:0| 36 143 61 2 0 0 false true Thu Aug 13 14:49:37 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 14:51:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 18 14:17:39 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 14:23:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 31 13:30:52 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 13:30:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Sep 22 14:54:18 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 14:54:25 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Sep 09 20:28:45 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 12:36:53 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Sep 04 03:24:52 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 03:24:52 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 17:44:44 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:44:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 23:31:18 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 23:31:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 29 11:20:27 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 23:42:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 08:09:33 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 08:09:33 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 09:25:29 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 09:25:29 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 19:40:39 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 19:40:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 18:22:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:22:59 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri May 29 20:44:08 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 20:44:08 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 12 07:53:08 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 07:53:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Apr 30 13:52:42 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 13:52:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 18 19:51:27 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 19:51:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 17 15:04:05 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 15:04:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Feb 14 21:41:06 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 21:41:06 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 26 12:29:08 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 12:29:08 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=154713