"Our Roots Run Deep" is a lovingly documented story of how the River Road African American Museum came to be, beginning with the inspired dream of a tenacious young woman, Kathe Hambrick This book is an invaluable resource for African Americans. Like the museum, it serves equally for all Americans in order that we can understand out true story. Until we each know our neighbors history, we know only half of our own. Kathe Hambrick and Dr. Thomas J. Durant, Jr., have heeded well the old African proverb quoted in the book, "Until the lion writes his own story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

Ernest J. Gaines
Acclaimed author of "A Lesson Before Dying"
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction