Discover
Original Release
10/22/2013
US Release
10/22/2013
Cast
Name | Character |
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Self - host and narrator |
Vincent Brown | Self - historian / Self - historian, Harvard University |
Bernard E. Powers Jr. | Self - historian |
Peniel E. Joseph | Self - historian |
Thavolia Glymph | Self - historian |
David Levering Lewis | Self - historian |
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. | Self - lawyer and civil rights activist |
James H. Sweet | Self - historian |
Damon Keith | Self - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |
Grace Lee Boggs | Self - author |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | The Black Atlantic (1500-1800) | Tuesday, 22 October 2013 |
2 | The Age of Slavery (1800-1860) | Tuesday, 29 October 2013 |
3 | Into the Fire (1861-1890) | Tuesday, 05 November 2013 |
4 | Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940) | Monday, 11 November 2013 |
5 | Rise! (1940-1968) | Sunday, 17 November 2013 |
6 | A More Perfect Union | Tuesday, 26 November 2013 |
Directors
Phil Bertelsen, Sabin Streeter, Jamila Wignot, Leslie Asako Gladsjo
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Self - host and narrator |
Vincent Brown | Self - historian / Self - historian, Harvard University |
Bernard E. Powers Jr. | Self - historian |
Peniel E. Joseph | Self - historian |
Thavolia Glymph | Self - historian |
David Levering Lewis | Self - historian |
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. | Self - lawyer and civil rights activist |
James H. Sweet | Self - historian |
Damon Keith | Self - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |
Grace Lee Boggs | Self - author |
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham | Self - historian, Harvard University |
Christopher L. Brown | Self - historian |
Mark Kelly Tyler | Self - Pastor, African Methodist Episcopal Church |
Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander | Self - historian |
Christopher S. Parker | Self - author of 'Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South' |
David Pilgrim | Self - founder and curator, Jim Crow Museum |
Douglas Egerton | Self - Historian |
Abu Bangura | Self - village head of Port Loko, Sierra Leone |
Brent Hayes Edwards | Self - historian |
Michael Bertrand | Self - historian |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Peter W. Kunhardt | Executive Producer |
Dyllan McGee | Executive Producer |
Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Executive Producer |
Julie Anderson | Executive Producer |
Jaime Sukonnik | Producer |
Rachel Dretzin | Producer |
Leslie Asako Gladsjo | Producer |
Teddy Kunhardt | Producer |
George Kunhardt | Producer |
Rebecca Brillhart | Producer |
Timothy Messler | Producer |
Stephanie Carter | Producer |
Stef Gordon | Producer |
Amy Brillhart | Producer |
Eva Lipman | Producer |
Leah Williams | Producer |
Talleah Bridges McMahon | Producer |
Hazel Gurland | Producer |
Sabin Streeter | Producer |
Phil Bertelsen | Producer |
Jamila Wignot | Producer |
Nicole Bozorgmir | Producer |