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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950)

Alias:
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr.
Skip Gates
Skip Gates, Jr.

Birthplace:
Keyser, West Virginia, USA

Born:
September 16, 1950

Biography from TheMovieDB

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Executive Producer:
2003  Let the Church Say, Amen
2009  Looking for Lincoln
2019  Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2021  Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021  Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
2022  Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

Writer:
1999  Leaving Cleaver
2003  Let the Church Say, Amen
2009  Looking for Lincoln
2019  Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2021  Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021  Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
2022  Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

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TV Performances

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TV Production

Creator:
2013  The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2019  Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Executive Producer:
2012  Finding Your Roots
2013  The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2019  Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019  Who Killed Malcolm X?
2021  The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2022  Making Black America
2024  Gospel
2025  Great Migrations: A People on the Move

Writer:
1999  Wonders of the African World
2004  America Beyond the Color Line
2012  Finding Your Roots
2013  The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2016  Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2017  Africa's Great Civilizations
2019  Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019  Who Killed Malcolm X?
2021  The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2022  Making Black America
2024  Gospel
2025  Great Migrations: A People on the Move

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