Finding Your Roots

A Great-Great-Grandfather's Scandal

Clip: Season 6 Episode 2 | 1m 31s

Henry Lewis Gates Jr. reveals Melissa's great-great-grandfather's scandal.

Aired: 10/15/19

Rating: NR

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Major corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Six is provided by Ancestry, Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. Major support is also provided by the Ford Foundation, Candace King Weir, the Lloyd Carney Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.

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