Finding Your Roots Season 0 Episode 1 - Henry Louis Gates Jr. Uncovering America

Airdate: 2019-Mar-01

Episode summary:

The program celebrates the life and work of Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and literary scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A leading figure in American cultural life and one of its most renowned, respected and popular cultural historians and personalities, Professor Gates has authored or co-authored 22 books and created 18 documentary films. His award-winning programs on PBS have helped history come alive to tens of millions of people, often telling surprising and unexpected stories of our collective heritage.

About Finding Your Roots series:

The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new 10-part PBS series “Finding Your Roots with Henry Lou...Show more >