Post by Oss Rae on Apr 14, 2019 9:12:12 GMT -8
I stumbled onto this. It aired in January '78 on the one-year anniversary of Roots' first airing. It goes into Alex Haley's lineage, how he researched it, and how the mini-series came to be.
I also came across this, a record where Haley discusses the process of researching his genealogy,