Finding Your Roots

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Season 1 Episode 4 | 51m 10s

The ancestral pasts of married Hollywood actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.

Aired: 04/07/12

Expired: 12/31/69

Rating: NR

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Major corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Five is provided by Ancestry, Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. Major support is also provided by the Ford Foundation, Candace King Weir, the Lloyd Carney Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.

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Finding Your Roots

Education | Mumbet

An overview of the story of a slave named Mumbet.

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 4m 42s

Education | Mumbet

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 4m 42s

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Finding Your Roots

Children Keep Going

Condoleezza Rice remembers the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 1m 7s

Children Keep Going

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 1m 7s

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Finding Your Roots

Education | Slavery in the North

A look at slavery in the North and the views and actions of Quakers.

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 5m 26s

Education | Slavery in the North

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 5m 26s

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Finding Your Roots

Education | After Slavery

A look at President Lincoln's appeal to the nation to rebuild after the Civil War.

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 2m 55s

Education | After Slavery

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 2m 55s

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Finding Your Roots

Not a Dumb Critter

Kyra Sedgwick learns the interactions between her ancestor and a slave named Mumbet.

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 1m 50s

Not a Dumb Critter

Clip: S1 Ep4 | 1m 50s

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