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| Author | Alex Haley |
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| Publisher | Ithaca ILR Press |
Publication date | 1997 |
| Mama Flora's Family | |
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| Directed by | Peter Werner |
| Written by | Alex Haley David Stevens (novel) David Stevens Carol Schreder (teleplay) |
| Produced by | Lisa Lindstrom Carol Schreder |
| Starring | Cicely Tyson Blair Underwood Queen Latifah Mario Van Peebles Erika Alexander Tanya Wright David Ramsey Shemar Moore Novella Nelson Lou Myers |
| Cinematography | Neil Roach |
| Edited by | Tod Feuerman |
| Music by | J. A. C. Redford |
| Distributed by | CBS |
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Running time | 60 mins (2 episodes) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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]
- ^ "Cicely Tyson heads "Mama Flora's Family" in miniseries". Boca Raton News. Nov 8, 1998. Retrieved 19 November 2012.