Writer:	Ernest Kinoy
Director:	John Erman
Star:	Georg Stanford Brown (Tom Harvey),  Richard Thomas (Jim Warner),  Paul Koslo (Earl Crowther),  Olivia de Havilland (Mrs. Warner),  Avon Long (Chicken George Moore),  Greg Morris (Beeman Jones),  Henry Fonda (Colonel Frederick Warner),  Lynne Moody (Irene Harvey),  Marc Singer (Andy Warner)
Recurring Role:	Debbi Morgan (Elizabeth Harvey)
Guest Star:	Fay Hauser (Carrie Barden),  Brian Stokes Mitchell (John Dolan),  Cynthia Sye (Cynthia),  Morgan Roberts (Mourner),  Al Fann (Boy),  Ray Hemphill (Engineer),  Frances E. Nealy (Mourner),  Albert Reed (J. W. Boyd),  Essex Smith (Servant),  Ja'net DuBois (Sally Harvey),  Lou Frizzel (Conductor),  Kathleen Doyle (Lucy),  Don Keefer (Hapgood),  Wendy Glass (Patience),  Luise Heath (Mrs. Jones),  Royce Wallace (Minnie)

ABC budgeted $16.6 million for the production of Roots: The Next Generations, which was three times what was spent on the original Roots miniseries. (edit) ABC spent $1.8 million building and updating (to reflect changes in history) the set that became the town of Henning, Tennessee. (edit) Guest stars Brian Stokes Mitchell, Frances E. Nealy, and Al Fann were credited as "Brian Mitchell", "Frances Nealy", and "Al "Locko" Fann respectively, in this episode. (edit) Roots: The Next Generations was nominated in 1979 for 5 Emmy awards including:

"Outstanding Achievement in Makeup"
"Outstanding Limited Series"
"Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special"
"Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special"
"Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special" (edit) Roots: The Next Generations won an Emmy award in 1977 for "Outstanding Limited Series". (edit)

Tom: Now Elizabeth, that school gotta keep on. Meanin' sorry as it is, it's the only way black folk gonna break out and climb. That school gotta keep on.
Elizabeth: So you mean you gonna do what the white man tell ya? You gonna knuckle under papa?
Irene: Elizabeth, now hush!
Elizabeth: Girl tell you to jump and what you do papa? You jump. (angrily starts to sing and do the Jim Crow dance) Jump, jump Jim Crow. Jump, jump, jump Jim Crow. Wheel about and turn about and do just so. Slide, slide, and point dat toe.
Tom: (weakly) Beth.
Elizabeth: (continues to sing and dance and twirl) You funny as a minstrel queen who jumped Jim Crow.
Irene: (grabs Elizabeth's arm) Stop it! Stop it!
Elizabeth: (continues singing) Jump, jump, jump Jim Crow. Kneel to the buzzards and you bow to the crow. Smile, smile, and away you go. (now yelling) every time you wheel about you jump Jim Crow!!
(Tom walks over to her seething and smacks her hard across the face, knocking her to the floor)
Irene: Don't you don't touch this child!!
Elizabeth: (weakly) Learned you some mighty man papa. I heard your old stories from Grandpa George... 'Bout the African. Forgot about him papa? Kunta Kinte? Dat what his name. He die a slave papa and you be free. Whatcha do with that freedom papa? You gonna jump papa? You gonna jump Jim crow? (edit) Tom: I done explain to you daddy. The way we vote this morning was between the lesser of 2 evils.
Chicken George: That's what I said! Two things goin' to ruin the government - the boll weevils and the lesser of 2 evils. That's what I said! (edit)

This episode does not have any trivia. Add some now!

The song and dance routine that Elizabeth performs to mock her father Tom's decision to ask the local black school teacher (who he recruited) to leave town, by suggestion of the local white politicians, was a reverse application (based on the black interpretation) of a minstrel show character named "Jim Crow" created by a white entertainer named Tom Rice. Rice's character, who he played in black-face, became the embodiment of some of the most derogatory stereotypes of blacks at the time but also became a symbol by blacks themselves to use against other blacks who were believed to act in such a caricatured and exaggerated manner. The term "Jim Crow" eventually came to refer to laws that were put in place by most southern and some northern states, to racially segregate and otherwise restrict the rights of the black population during the late 19th through to the mid-late 20th century. (edit)