The African Americans - Many Rivers to Cross - with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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    Information about the PBS series written and presented noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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    Bank of America is proud to sponsor The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. We share Professor Gates’ belief that we must understand and connect with our country’s unique past as we work to create a better future.

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Many Rivers Posters

A collection of shareable, downloadable posters created for The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series, featuring quotations by notable African Americans including Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Jackie Robinson, and Malcolm X.
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is a film by Kunhardt McGee Productions, THIRTEEN Productions LLC, Inkwell Films, in assocation with Ark Media.