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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and WETA
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Professor Gates's Library of Work


Gospel
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Making Black America
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Africa's Great Civilizations
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Finding Your Roots
Culture
About Professor Gates
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, historian, best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, and host of the popular genealogy series Finding Your Roots.
He has produced numerous history documentaries such as The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Africa’s Great Civilizations, and Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise. Dr. Gates’s most recent production Reconstruction: America After the Civil War was announced as a 2020 recipient of the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for Journalism.
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