African American Lives
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African American Lives

A ground-breaking series that combines traditional genealogical research with genetic analysis. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the African-American experience by delving into the family histories of nine prominent Black American figures, including Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Whoopi Goldberg and Bishop T.D. Jakes.
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  1. S1 E1 - Listening to Our Past

    Enero 31, 2006
    53min
    13+
    Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins to piece together the family histories of four of the participants. In doing so, the episode explores the post-World War I "Great Migration" of African American families from the South to northern cities like Detroit and Chicago, as well as the experiences of those families that stayed in the South during the period of Jim Crow segregation.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Promise of Freedom

    Enero 31, 2006
    53min
    13+
    From the early 20th century to the end of the Civil War, a look at how African Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Dr. Gates learns that courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census prove important resources for tracing the participants' lineage through Reconstruction.
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  3. S1 E3 - Searching for Our Names

    Pebrero 7, 2006
    54min
    13+
    Genealogical research is more difficult moving back from the Civil War through the Colonial era. One participant visits the plantation where her ancestors toiled. Another is shocked to learn that a relative, though a soldier, was neither African American nor fought for the Union. Genealogists explain the difficulties inherent when African Americans have spent more generations enslaved than free.
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  4. S1 E4 - Beyond the Middle Passage

    Pebrero 7, 2006
    54min
    13+
    Professor Gates visits scientists around the country using DNA analysis to trace ancestral roots. He and one participant make the last leg of the journey, back to Africa, visiting the West African port from which the participant's patrilineal ancestor was likely shipped into slavery, and meeting tribal elders whose DNA suggests are the participant's cousins.
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