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Education | Wanda Sykes’s Free Black Ancestors in the 1850s

05/13/12 | 2m 39s | Rating: NR

A look at the lives of Wanda Sykes’s ancestors in the 1850s and how a marriage certificate proves their free status.

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Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; by the Inkwell Society together with many of its members; and by public television viewers.

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