ROOTS

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 24: ROOTS - Sunday, Jan. 23-Sunday. Jan. 30, 1977, The 12-hour Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Novel for Television "Roots", which aired for eight consecutive nights, remains one of TV's landmark programs. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel, "Roots" followed 100 tumultuous years and several generations of the author's African ancestors, from the arrival of Kunta Kinte, the West African youth kidnapped into slavery and shipped to America, through emancipation after the Civil War., Pictured: Nyo Boto (Maya Angelou) presented her grandson, Kunta Kinte, born to Binta and Omoro (Thalmus Rasulala, right). , (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)