Sophia Encarnacion
Dear Henry Louis Gates Jr, Thank you so much for producing this film!!! I really could see all the heart that you put into making this film. I learned so much ...
Sophia Hall
Sophia Hall Dear Henry Louis Gates Jr., (1619) The hot sun was beating down on their skin. There backs were hunched over, picking cotton, and tobacco... ( Early 1900’s) There freedom was ...
Stella Marcantel
Dear Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Thank you for making “Many Rivers to Cross”. I can not believe how much time and effort it must have taken you to put all of ...
William Lurz
March 23 2015 Dear Henry Louis Gates Jr., I thought the documentary Many Rivers to Cross was captivating. I thought that you were a very good presenter in that documentary. It really ...
Yasnil Suriel
Brooklyn, NY, United States
Dear Henry Louis Gates Jr., When I saw the Many River to Cross documentary it blew my mind. One of my favorite parts was that part about Oscar Micheaux and how ...
Nick Schafer
A few years ago I was at a swap meet and stumbled upon a group of people tearing through a photo album. I realized it was a black American's personal ...
Patricia Kelly
I learned from watching events unfold on TV, then travelled to study in Ghana. I visited over 22 nations. It was 1970, and we (my sister & dad) visited, fell ...
Lee Weal
As a child growing up in the 60s, I learned about the civil rights movement by living it. My mother and her closest friends were active members of our local ...
Daryl Cromer
I reside in Pacolet, S.C. in Spartanburg County and for the past 30 years have been an avid local historian and collector of material pertaining to Spartanburg. In 2008 our neighbors ...
Kathleen O'Connor Wang
I am thankful to Henry Louis Gates for his efforts to bring forth the history of black Americans to PBS watchers. I donated for first time in long time. I ...
Nicole Avery
Dr. Gates, Thank you for affording the world the comprehensive data supplied in The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. It has truly awakened my desire to research contributions made by ...
Eunice Trotter
I have researched an ancestor about whom a documentary has been produced by some retired IU professors. I was also able to have a marker placed at historic Vincennes' Courthouse. ...
kim mccall
I learned from my grandmother and mother about our history. In highschool I took Black History in 1976. My personal experiences on my life. Coming back from military 1991 to ...
Christine Easterling
A Giant for Justice tells the amazing true story of legendary educator and retired president of the Washington Teachers’ Union, William H. “Bill” Simons. He accomplished dozens of great strides ...
Bernice Bennett
Coming in March, 2014 Our Ancestors, Our Stories What was life like for black people living in the Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, during the time leading up and following the Civil ...
