HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection)
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In an intimate interview, Suzanne Malveaux talks with writer and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. about growing up in West Virginia, as well as his career in academia and public television. In a scoop, Gates also shares his side of the story in the infamous arrest outside of his home in Cambridge, MA. and the 'beer summit' afterwards.