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As a graduate student in 1968 at the University of Michigan, Roy G. Phillips heeded the advice of renowned genealogist and author Alex Haley, who encouraged the eager researcher to record the history and wisdom of his family elders while they were still alive. Phillips followed this advice and has produced a masterful and compelling account of family and society during the arduous racial maturation of America. Through the experiences of his fa...

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After sixty years, Dr. Roy G. Phillips, retired founding campus president at Miami-Dade College, Homestead Campus, returned to his native home in rural Webster Parish outside of Minden, Louisiana. It took him almost forty years to fulfill a dream, a journey that began as a conversation with renowned author Alex Haley culminated with the collection of fascinating stories, and then finished in a poignant book that tells the story of his ancestor...