After Reconstruction, African Americans were finally allowed to run for office and won two Senate and fourteen Congressional seats in the 1870s. Watch #ReconstructionPBS now on your local PBS station! | Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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#ReconstructionPBS is just ONE WEEK away! Tune-in on Tuesday, April 9, following the season finale of #FindingYourRoots on PBS. pbs.org/weta/reconstruction/ | Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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6.2K views · 461 reactions | On this day 154 years ago, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. In this clip from #ReconstructionPBS, I chat with David Blight at the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park. Watch more on Tuesday, April 16 at 9/8c on PBS. | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Facebook
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In Part Two of #ReconstructionPBS, former mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu tells me why he removed the Confederate monuments from his city. Watch tonight at 9/8c on PBS. | Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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For the first time ever, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. becomes the guest on his own show! Watch as groundbreaking DNA research uncovers deep family mysteries for both him and Laurence Fishburne in an unforgettable episode of Finding Your Roots. Tune in tomorrow night at 8/7c only on PBS! | Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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