Musician John Legend and comedienne Wanda Sykes, as well as Professor Gates himself and his 98-year-old friend Margarett Cooper, discover the extraordinary stories of the free black ancestors they never knew about.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
John Legend/Wanda Sykes/Margarett Cooper
season 1 episode 9
episode aired on may 2012
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Cast of episode
- Self - Host
- Self - Guest
- Self - Guest
- Self - Guest
- Self - Genealogist
- Self - Researcher
- Self - Expert on Slave Era Law, Albany Law School
- Self - Author and John's Cousin
- Self - Historian, University of Memphis
- Self
- Self - John's Father
- Self - Historian, San Francisco State University