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In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past /

Author Gates, Henry Louis.
Call Number 973.0496 GAT
Publisher New York : Crown Publishers,
Subject African Americans -- Genealogy.
African Americans -- Biography.
United States -- Genealogy.
Africa -- Genealogy.
Title Statement In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 438 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents Introduction: Family matters -- Prefatory notes on the African slave trade -- Maya Angelou -- Quincy Jones -- Morgan Freeman -- Tina Turner -- Peter J. Gomes -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot -- Tom Joyner -- Benjamin Carson -- Oprah Winfrey -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Mae Jemison -- T.D. Jakes -- Linda Johnson Rice -- Kathleen Henderson -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Don Cheadle -- Chris Rock -- Bliss Broyard -- Chris Tucker -- How to trace your own roots -- Note on DNA testing methods.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780307382405
0307382400
LCCN 2008011860
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Bib No. 1166665
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