Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. S7E8: Anchored to the Past
- Aired: 2021-04-20
- Time: 20:00:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
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Overview
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Gretchen Carlson and Don Lemon to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, traveling from Louisiana sugar plantations to immigrant towns in rural Minnesota, meeting soldiers and Civil Rights activists, entrepreneurs and day laborers who worked tirelessly to keep their families together so that, one day, their descendants might thrive.