10 Season
106 Episode
Finding Your Roots - Season 1 Episode 2 John Lewis and Cory Booker
In this episode, we feature two African American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. John Lewis grew up in a sharecropping family in rural Georgia, while Cory Booker was raised in an affluent, all-white New Jersey suburb. Although both men have devoted their lives to the betterment of African-American people, neither of them knows much about their own ancestors. In this episode, we introduce Booker to his white great-grandfather, a man he never knew, and move Lewis to tears over the extraordinary ambitions and accomplishments of his slave ancestors..
- Year: 2024
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: dna, celebrity, ancestry, genealogy
- Director:
- Cast: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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