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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Explore with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed -- forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds.

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20 Credits
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Self - host and narrator, Self - Host and Narrator
Vincent Brown
Self - historian, Self - Historian, Self - historian, Harvard University
Bernard E. Powers Jr.
Self - historian, Self - Historian
Peniel E. Joseph
Self - historian
David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis
Self - historian
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Self - lawyer and civil rights activist
Thavolia Glymph
Self - Historian, Self - historian
Kathleen Cleaver
Kathleen Cleaver
Self - professor of law and former member of Black Panther Party
Damon Keith
Self - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
James H. Sweet
Self - historian
Isabel Wilkerson
Self - author
John Stauffer
Self - historian
Richard Newman
Self - Historian
Christopher L. Brown
Self - historian
Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed
Self - historian
Maulana Karenga
Self - historian and co-founder of US Organization
Christopher S. Parker
Self - author of 'Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South'
Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander
Self - historian
Mark Kelly Tyler
Self - Pastor, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Tricia Rose
Self - historian
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