John Lewis digs through his roots on PBS’s ‘Finding Your Roots’ Sunday
Rep. John Lewis tears up over revelations found in PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” Sunday at 9 p.m., seen locally on GPB. CREDIT: AP Ever since his childhood, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. , has regarded U.S. Rep . John Lewis with awe. “He’s a civil rights hero,” said Gates, who is also director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research in Cambridge, Mass. “I watched him speak on TV when I was 13. I saw him at the March on Washington. He spent his life talking about injustice and inequality.” Thanks… >>
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