Finding Your Roots
Union Soldier
Kehinde Wiley’s great-grandfather was one of 370 black soldiers to serve in WWI.
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Finding Your Roots
Union Soldier
Clip: Season 6 Episode 13 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Kehinde Wiley’s great-grandfather was one of 370 black soldiers to serve in WWI.
Kehinde Wiley’s great-grandfather was one of 370 black soldiers to serve in WWI when the military, like almost all of America at the time, was segregated. His grueling assignment was to remove dead bodies from temporary graves for reburial in army cemeteries.
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Finding Your Roots
Union Soldier
Clip: Season 6 Episode 13 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Kehinde Wiley’s great-grandfather was one of 370 black soldiers to serve in WWI when the military, like almost all of America at the time, was segregated. His grueling assignment was to remove dead bodies from temporary graves for reburial in army cemeteries.
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Bill Hader's sixth great-grandfather found in the American Revolution. (1m)
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Julianne Moore’s father served in the US Army where he completed 550 combat missions. (58s)
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Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, and Kehinde Wiley discover surprising roots. (30s)
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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...