4 good links

  1. Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival

    Web site for the Maryland event, with a brief history of Kinte

  2. <i>Roots</i>

    The Museum of Broadcast Communications describes the miniseries and its impact

  3. The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation

    Website of the educational and memorial group

  4. African American History Links

    Washington University's guide to resources for further study

Kunta Kinte Biography

Kunta Kinte is the central figure in Alex Haley's 1976 book Roots. According to Haley's research, Kinte was 17 when he was captured and taken to America as a slave aboard the ship Lord Ligonier in 1767. Roots traces the lives of Kinte and his descendants down to Haley himself, Kinte's great great great great-grandson. The book became a popular TV miniseries in 1977, starring LeVar Burton as young Kinte and John Amos as the older Kinte.

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A memorial to Haley and Kinte stands in Annapolis, Maryland, at the dock where Kinte arrived.

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