In Search of our Roots : : how 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past

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Prefatory notes on the African slave trade -- Maya Angelou -- Quincy Jones -- Morgan Freeman -- Tina Turner -- Peter Gomes -- Sara Lawrence Lightfoot -- Tom Joyner -- Benjamin Carson -- Oprah Winfrey -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Mae Jemison -- T.D. Jakes -- Linda Johnson Rice -- Kathleen Henderson -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Don Cheadle -- Chris Rock -- Bliss Broyard -- Chris Tucker -- How to trace your own roots -- Note on DNA testing methods.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 438 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307382405
0307382400

SUBJECTS
African Americans -- Genealogy.
African Americans -- Biography.
United States -- Genealogy.
Africa -- Genealogy.