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02-Cory Booker / John Lewis
Year
2012
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
1h 0m
Rating
TVPG
Performers
Cory Booker, John Lewis
Directed By
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publication Information
PBS
Summary
This program features 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 knows much about his own ancestors. In this episode, Booker is introduced to his white great-grandfather, a man he never knew, and Lewis is moved to tears over the extraordinary ambitions and accomplishments of his slave ancestors.