Finding Your Roots

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

The ancestral pasts of married Hollywood actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.

Not a Dumb Critter

1m 50s

Kyra Sedgwick learns about the slave, Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman who, after hearing the Declaration of Independence, turns to Kyra's ancestor, the well-known attorney Theodore Sedgwick, to help secure her freedom.

Previews + Extras

  • Education | Slavery in the North: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Education | Slavery in the North

    S1 E4 - 5m 26s

    A look at slavery in the North and the views and actions of Quakers including Kevin Bacon's ancestor Samuel Atkinson.

  • Education | After Slavery: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Education | After Slavery

    S1 E4 - 2m 55s

    A look at President Lincoln's appeal to the nation to rebuild after the Civil War and the response to his request by Kevin Bacon's ancestor Lydia Atkinson and other Quakers.

  • Children Keep Going: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Children Keep Going

    S1 E4 - 1m 7s

    Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice remembers the September 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church which killed four young black girls. Rice was 9 years old at the time of the bombing.

  • Education | Mumbet: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Education | Mumbet

    S1 E4 - 4m 42s

    An overview of the story of a slave named Mumbet and the role that Kyra's ancestor played in helping secure her freedom.

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