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Finding Your Roots
Suing for Freedom
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. talks with friend Margarett Cooper about her remarkable ancestry, and learns about her great, great, great grandmother, a female slave who sued her master for her own freedom.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines the pasts of politicians, John Lewis and Cory Booker.