Henry gates with Chris Rock

The Questions........

1.Who is Dr. Henry Gates?

Choose one interviewee and discuss the follwing: (Remember to include the name of the person)

2.His or her family name

3.The historical event(s) and the significance to the institution of slavery in the United States


The Answers.........

1. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.


Chris Rock


2. His Family name is Rock



Answers For Number 3

• 1965, Chris Rock is born on February 7th in Andrews, South Carolina.

• 1865, In March, Julius Caesar Tingman enlists with the U.S. Colored Troops after twenty-one years as a slave. Tingman, Chris Rock's great, great grandfather, remains in the army until 1866.

• 1940s, Alan Rock, Chris Rock's grandfather, leaves South Carolina for New York City where he becomes a cab driver and preacher.