Henry Louis Gates Daughters Elizabeth is in her twenties and suffered a severe stroke in May 2010. We'd spit in a test tube. "People wanted to kill me, man," Gates says of the reaction to that op-ed. And when this little girl's passing for - she passes for white and breaks her mother's heart. GATES: Terry Gross speechless - first time in 35 years. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. And when my grandparents came as immigrants, my family was able to assimilate pretty easily because we're white. And when I was a young teenager, early adolescence, my father and I connected through the news. GATES: And think about it. (Note: Clotel (1853) by William Wells Brown is recognized as the first novel published by an African-American author, but it was both written and published in London.) In 2012, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. But I saw that photograph and read her obituary on the day that we buried my father's father, Edward St. Lawrence Gates. Please make sure your computer, VPN, or network allows You know, I try to - doing "Finding Your Roots" is a way to paying homage to my mother and father every year. He is on the boards of many notable institutions, including the, In 2010, Gates became the first African American to have his, In December 2014, Gates was announced as one of 14 recipients of a 2015. GROSS: So given this kind of really rich mix that you've just described and all the surprises that you've just described, what does race mean to you? 1. Jr. (Design School Visiting Committee 1984-89) in honor of their daughters, Brooke Higgins Bing Williams, Harvard College 1988, and Eden Branford Bing Williams, Harvard . And the first thing they said was, you don't have any of the genes that's going to give you Alzheimer's. A Letter from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to his daughters Maggie and Lisa I enjoy the unselfconscious moments of a shared cultural intimacy, whatever form they take, when no one else is watching, when no white people are around. GROSS: Huge story. One of eight children born to Edward St. Lawrence Gates and Helen Gertrude Redman Gates, he was the youngest of seven sons. Professor Gates is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard and has produced numerous books and documentaries about African-American history.
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