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One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" is a 1973 screenplay by James Baldwin.
With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together is the 1998 autobiography of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. This married couple recalls their fifty years of life together and their experiences on stage and screen starting in the 1940s. As well, they remember their years of political activism and the famous figures, including Malcolm X and Sidney Poitier, they befriended.
In his hugely successful book, Roots: Saga of an American Family, first published in 1976, Alex Haley retells the stories his grandmother told him about his family's past generations going back to the young African relative brought to America as a slave. The book spawned a television mini-series and earned the 1976 National Book Award and a 1977 Lillian Smith Book...
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