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2. 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 ...
GROSS: Terry Gross interviewed Henry Louis Gates last May when he was in Philadelphia to accept the WHYY Lifelong Learning Award. Gates is the host of the TV genealogy series "Finding Your Roots."
A Letter from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to his daughters Maggie and Lisa. I enjoy the unselfconscious moments of a shared cultural intimacy, whatever form they take, when no one else is watching, when no white people are around. Like Joe Louis's fights, which my father still talks about as part of the fixed repertoire of stories that texture our ...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., 73, is a writer, cultural historian and director of Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He hosts the PBS TV series “Finding Your Roots ...
Jul 24, 2009 · 1. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born Sept. 16, 1950, in Keyser, W.Va. His father worked at the local paper mill during the day and as a janitor at a telephone company at night. His mother cleaned ...
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Jun 27, 2024 · Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Born: September 16, 1950, Keyser, West Virginia, U.S. (age 73) Notable Works: “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the ”Racial” Self”. “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow”. “The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism”.
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Feb 3, 2014 · 1776: Harry Washington, one of George Washington’s slaves, ran away from Mount Vernon and ultimately joined the British Army. At the war's end, he found safe haven in the British Zone in New ...
