Name: Finding Your Roots
Genre: Documentary

Finding Your Roots Episode 1.02 John Lewis and Cory Booker

Finding Your Roots Episode 1.02 John Lewis and Cory Booker

Episode Premiere

March 24, 2012

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

Kunhardt McGee Productions

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/

Information

Episode Premiere

March 24, 2012

Genre

Documentary

Period

2012 -

Production Co

Kunhardt McGee Productions

Distributor

PBS

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/

Cast and Crew

Main Cast

Henry Louis Gates
Jr.

Additional Cast

Cory Booker
John Lewis

Synopsis

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 to tears over the extraordinary ambitions and accomplishments of his slave ancestors..