African Americans Rebuilding and Reconnecting after the Civil War | Finding Your Roots

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Classroom Material
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Finding Your Roots Season Eight Henry Louis Gates DNA genealogy ancestry roots ancestors weta Terry Crews FYR census emancipation freedmens bureau reconstruction amendments Civil War African Americans Antebellum Period Antebellum South slavery freedmen freemen freed slaves Reconstruction Reconstruction Era Reconstruction Amendments
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History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Classroom Teacher / Educator
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African Americans Rebuilding and Reconnecting after the Civil War | Finding Your Roots

In Season Eight of Finding Your Roots, while exploring the ancestry of actor Terry Crews, it is discovered that his family, once torn apart during slavery, was reunited after the end of the Civil War.
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PBS Learning Media

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