Where To Stream Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Season 1 Episode 2
Cory Booker and John Lewis
- Aired March 25, 2012
- 60 Min
- Rated 8.5
- Number 20 Of 88 Rated Episodes
In this episode, we feature 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 of them knows much about their own ancestors. In this episode, we introduce Booker to his white great-grandfather, a man he never knew, and move Lewis...