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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. [1]
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. noted that Crafts referred to historical figures and actual places in her novel; among those were the Cosgroves, found in the Virginia census; Mr. Henry, a Presbyterian minister in Stafford County, Virginia; and Jane Johnson, a slave from John H. Wheeler's Washington, DC household, who gained freedom in 1855 in ...
On July 16, 2009, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home by local police officer Sgt. James Crowley, who was responding to a 911 caller's report of men breaking and entering the residence. The arrest initiated a series of events that unfolded under the spotlight of the international ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is in the business of finding family secrets. Gates, who has been the host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” since it premiered in 2012, has helped many celebrities ...
Here’s a first look at Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on “The Simpsons”: ... The husband-wife legal team working on 2 of today’s biggest criminal cases. News. News. CNN.
Burton rose to fame as a child actor in the TV adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots," the show that host Henry Louis Gates cited ... named James Henry Dixon who had a wife and family at the time of ...
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson.First published in 1859, [1] it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. [2] and was subsequently reissued with an introduction by Gates (London: Allison & Busby, 1984). [3]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. has a running list of dream guests for the show "Finding Your Roots," and TODAY's own Al Roker tops the list. The host of the PBS series stopped by the 3rd Hour of TODAY on ...