Mama Flora's Family

Mama Flora's Family
AuthorAlex Haley
PublisherIthaca ILR Press
Publication date
1997
Mama Flora's Family
Directed byPeter Werner
Written byAlex Haley
David Stevens
(novel)
David Stevens
Carol Schreder
(teleplay)
Produced byLisa Lindstrom
Carol Schreder
StarringCicely Tyson
Blair Underwood
Queen Latifah
Mario Van Peebles
Erika Alexander
Tanya Wright
David Ramsey
Shemar Moore
Novella Nelson
Lou Myers
CinematographyNeil Roach
Edited byTod Feuerman
Music byJ. A. C. Redford
Distributed byCBS
Release date
  • November 8, 1998 (1998-11-08)
Running time
60 mins (2 episodes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1970s as it follows Flora, a daughter of poor black Mississippi sharecroppers, and her descendants. Haley died before completing the novel, with Stevens finishing the story line.[citation needed]

In 1998 the book was adapted into a made for TV miniseries of the same name.[1]

  1. ^ "Cicely Tyson heads "Mama Flora's Family" in miniseries". Boca Raton News. Nov 8, 1998. Retrieved 19 November 2012.