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Finding Your Roots
Education | Growing up under Jim Crow in WV and TN
A look at life under Jim Crow in Piedmont, WV during Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s childhood and in Chattanooga, TN during Samuel L. Jackson’s childhood.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines the pasts of politicians, John Lewis and Cory Booker.