Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Season 1, Episode 2, Cory Booker/John Lewis / producers: John Maggio, Julia Marchesi, Caitlin McNally, Sabin Streeter, Jesse Sweet, Jack Youngelson.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., host, writer.

Maggio, John, producer.

Marchesi, Julia, producer.

McNally, Caitlin, producer.

Streeter, Sabin, producer.

Sweet, Jesse, producer.

Youngelson, Jack, producer.

Inkwell Films (Firm), production company.

Kunhardt McGee Productions, production company.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Booker, Cory.

Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-.

Lewis, John.

Celebrities--Genealogy.

Celebrities.

Families--History.

Families.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

This program features two African-American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. John Lewis grew up in a sharecropping family in rural Georgia, while Cory Booker was raised in an affluent, all-white New Jersey suburb. Although both men have devoted their lives to the betterment of African-American people, neither knows much about his own ancestors. In this episode, Booker is introduced to his white great-grandfather, a man he never knew, and Lewis is moved to tears over the extraordinary ambitions and accomplishments of his slave ancestors.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed August 13, 2015).

OCLC:

919205465