Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Cicely Tyson
Eric Brown
Richard Dysart
Odetta
Will Hare
Katherine Helmond
Thalmus Rasulala
Josephine Premice
Warren Kenner
Dudley Knight

1974
Directed by John Korty
Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines

Cicely Tyson was the first Black actress to win Lead Actress Emmy Award in the TV Movie/MiniSeries category when she won this award in 1974.

Major Emmy Award winning TV movie:
Actress of the Year (Cicely Tyson)
Best Directing in Drama, A Single Program Comedy or Drama
Best Lead Actress in a Drama (Cicely Tyson)
Best Music Composition for a Special Program (Fred Karlin)
Best Writing in Drama, Adaptation (Tracy Keenan Wynn)
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design (Bruce Walkup and Sandra Stewart)
Outstanding Achievement in Makeup (Stan Winston and Rick Baker)
Outstanding Limited Series (Robert Christiansen and Rick Rosenberg)
Outstanding Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts (Lynda Gurasich, hairstylist)

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