In a new episode of the PBS series 'Finding Your Roots', Anita Hill finds an ancestor listed in the US census at a time when Black people were rarely documented by name.
In a new episode of the PBS series, Hill found an ancestor listed in the U.S. census at a time when Black people were rarely documented by name.Claretta Bellamy
Hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., a historian and Harvard University professor, the show takes notable people on a quest to learn more about their ancestry., Hill learns of her great-great-grandfather, who resided in Bowie County, Texas, in 1850. At the time, Bowie County was one of only three known counties — including Utah County, Utah, and Scott County, Tennessee — that documented the names and information of its enslaved residents.
Packnett Cunningham, whose genealogy was also explored in the episode, is a civil rights activist and writer and a previous member of former President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. She appeared on the 2017 cover of Essence magazine and was honored at the 2018 BET awards for her activism efforts, and she is an MSNBC contributor.
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